It Pays to Be Herr Kaiser: Germans With Noble-Sounding Surnames More Often Work as Managers Than as Employees

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2437-2444

  Silberzahn, Raphael ^a   Uhlmann, Eric Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HEC PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

associative processes; organizations; social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ETHNOLOGY; GERMANY; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; OCCUPATION; PERCEPTION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; NAMES; OCCUPATIONS; PERSONNEL SELECTION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84890320622     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613494851     Document Type: Article

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