Paulhus Deception Scales

The Paulus Deception Scale (PDS),also known as Version 7 of the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR), is a measure providing scales relating to impression management, the tendency to give socially desirable answers, and of self-deceptive enhancement, a construct in which it is thought that people,s lack of insight associated with an unconscious bias may prevent them from reporting accurately even if they wished to

It was developed by Delroy L. Paulus

The measure