Spurious? Name Similarity Effects (Implicit Egotism) in Marriage, Job, and Moving Decisions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-24

  Simonsohn, Uri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Field studies; Implicit egotism; Name letter effects; Spurious results; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIGRATION; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECOGNITION; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAREER CHOICE; CAUSALITY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MARRIAGE; NAMES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SAMPLING STUDIES; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959833576     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021990     Document Type: Article

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