Replication Data for: Threat-Inducing Violent Events Exacerbate Social Desirability Bias in Survey Responseshttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XOCNK1Singh, Shane P.Tir, JaroslavHarvard Dataverse2021-02-262023-04-26T10:04:38ZA key challenge in survey research is social desirability bias: respondents feel pressured to report acceptable attitudes and behaviors. Building on established findings, we argue that threat-inducing violent events are a heretofore unaccounted for driver of social desirability bias. We probe this argument by investigating whether fatal terror attacks lead respondents to overreport past electoral participation, a well-known and measurable result of social desirability bias. Using a cross-national analysis and natural and survey experiments, we show that fatal terror attacks generate turnout overreporting. 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