Moniker maladies: When names sabotage success

Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1106-1112

  Nelson, Leif D ^a   Simmons, Joseph P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; BASEBALL; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; NAMES; PSYCHOLOGY; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 36348937445     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.02032.x     Document Type: Article

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