Overvaluation of own attributes: mere ownership or subjective frequency?
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A person's partiality to letters of the alphabet occurring in his or her name, known as the Name-Letter Effect, was postulated by Nuttin in 1984. The reasons was attributed to the mere ownership hypothesis and the subjective frequency hypothesis. According to the former, the idea of an object as belonging to oneself is a sufficient cause for partiality. An experiment revealed that 14 and 15-year old male Flemish students showed a preference for their name-letters in letter pairs. This preference was found to prove the subjective frequency hypothesis. The second experiment explored whether the attractiveness or the frequency of name-letters was responsible for the Name-Letter Effect. Using a different list of letter pairs, the responses of thirty-six male and female Flemish students were studied. A third experiment conducted on Flemish economics and law students revealed a correlation between the Name-Letter Effect and the evaluation of one's name, proving the mere ownership hypothesis.
Publication Name: Social Cognition
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-016X
Year: 1993
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The effect of priming causal dimensional categories on social judgments
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Causal information was found to influence the impressions and reactions of subjects in three experiments. The first two experiments involved a memory test with sentences and reading of a paragraph on a borrower of class notes. Causal controllability governed the subjects' response to the borrower. These, exposed to stable causal information, reacted more sympathetically to the predicament of the borrower. The third experiment explored subjects' perception of a person's difficulties based on causal information. The effect of causal interpretation on attribution processes is being studied.
Publication Name: Social Cognition
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-016X
Year: 1993
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Generalization of mere exposure to faces viewed from different horizontal angles
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A study is conducted to assess whether mere exposure to upright faces results in greater generalization of liking than mere exposure to inverted faces. The findings suggest that mere exposure for upright faces presented at any angle may easily generalize to other views of the face, but that generalization is less efficient for perceptually matched inverted faces.
Publication Name: Social Cognition
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-016X
Year: 2005
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