Impression Management

§2The established instruments

What the field already uses — named and cited, not reproduced (item wording is copyrighted and withheld pending clearance).

• Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) Version 6—Form 40 — Paulhus (1984, 1988)
• CPI Good Impression (Gi) Scale — Gough (1952)
• MMPI Lie (L) Scale — Meehl & Hathaway (1946)

§3The math on what we know

Synthesized priors from the live registry: pooled r, studies (k), total N, top study grade, and heterogeneity. Rows flagged for heterogeneity or single-study evidence are directional, not settled — read them as a central tendency.

What impression management predicts