Spurious? Name similarity effects (implicit egotism) in marriage, job, and moving decisions¶
Simonsohn, U. (2011). Spurious? Name similarity effects (implicit egotism) in marriage, job, and moving decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(1), 1-24.
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- Birthday-Number Effect
- The effect survives controls for the intrinsic pleasantness of numbers and for the general popularity of certain digits, though the literature on whether it extends to meaningful behavioral consequences — marriage to similar-named partners, moving to places resembling one's name or birthday number, and entering occupations echoing one's name — has been substantially deflated by reanalyses correcting for cohort effects and base-rate confounds (Simonsohn 2011)
This sourceSimonsohn's reanalysis, which replicated the implicit-egotism field findings for marriage, job and moving decisions but showed them to be most likely caused by cohort, geographic and ethnic confounds and reverse causality.
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- The effect survives controls for the intrinsic pleasantness of numbers and for the general popularity of certain digits, though the literature on whether it extends to meaningful behavioral consequences — marriage to similar-named partners, moving to places resembling one's name or birthday number, and entering occupations echoing one's name — has been substantially deflated by reanalyses correcting for cohort effects and base-rate confounds (Simonsohn 2011)
- Implicit Egotism
- Controlled preferences for initials and birthday digits can coexist with failures of claims that names steer occupations, cities, spouses, or other consequential outcomes
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- Controlled preferences for initials and birthday digits can coexist with failures of claims that names steer occupations, cities, spouses, or other consequential outcomes
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