Students with the initial "A" don't get better grades

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 340-343

  McCullough, B D ^a   McWilliams, Thomas P ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit egotism; Name letter effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955475888     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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