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Psychol Sci
 2014
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614533802
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Matched-Names Analysis Reveals No Evidence of Name-Meaning Effects

Raphael Silberzahn
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Uri Simonsohn
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Eric Luis Uhlmann
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“…Germans with noble and nonnoble names are equally well represented in managerial positions. We subsequently coauthored a collaborative commentary (Silberzahn et al, 2014) reporting the new results. This experience inspired us to pursue our line of work on crowdsourcing data analysis, in which the same data set is distributed to many different analysts to test the same hypothesis and the effect-size estimates are compared (Silberzahn et al, 2018; Silberzahn & Uhlmann, 2015).…”
Section: Results: Loss-of-confidence Statementsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A cautionary tale illustrates the need for such a system: In January 2018, a major German national weekly newspaper published an article (Kara, 2018a) that uncritically cited the findings of Silberzahn and Uhlmann (2013). Once the journalist had been alerted that these findings had been corrected in Silberzahn et al (2014), she wrote a correction to her newspaper article that was published within less than a month of the previous article (Kara, 2018b), demonstrating swift journalistic self-correction and making a strong point that any postpublication update to a scientific article should be made clearly visible to all readers of the original article.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…It is unclear whether and to what extent self-retractions actually damage researchers’ reputations (Bishop, 2018). Recent acts of self-correction such as those by Carney (2016), which inspired our efforts in this project, Silberzahn and Uhlmann (Silberzahn et al, 2014), Inzlicht (2016), Willén (2018), and Gervais (2017) have received positive reactions from within the psychological community. They remind us that science can advance at a faster pace than one funeral at a time.…”
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confidence: 99%
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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…Germans with noble and nonnoble names are equally well represented in managerial positions. We subsequently coauthored a collaborative commentary (Silberzahn et al, 2014) reporting the new results. This experience inspired us to pursue our line of work on crowdsourcing data analysis, in which the same data set is distributed to many different analysts to test the same hypothesis and the effect-size estimates are compared (Silberzahn et al, 2018; Silberzahn & Uhlmann, 2015).…”
Section: Results: Loss-of-confidence Statementsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A cautionary tale illustrates the need for such a system: In January 2018, a major German national weekly newspaper published an article (Kara, 2018a) that uncritically cited the findings of Silberzahn and Uhlmann (2013). Once the journalist had been alerted that these findings had been corrected in Silberzahn et al (2014), she wrote a correction to her newspaper article that was published within less than a month of the previous article (Kara, 2018b), demonstrating swift journalistic self-correction and making a strong point that any postpublication update to a scientific article should be made clearly visible to all readers of the original article.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is unclear whether and to what extent self-retractions actually damage researchers’ reputations (Bishop, 2018). Recent acts of self-correction such as those by Carney (2016), which inspired our efforts in this project, Silberzahn and Uhlmann (Silberzahn et al, 2014), Inzlicht (2016), Willén (2018), and Gervais (2017) have received positive reactions from within the psychological community. They remind us that science can advance at a faster pace than one funeral at a time.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…Drivers with names that had significant overlap were excluded from the data collection, such as “Kelly,” which is 85% women and 15% men in the SSA data. Since one's first name is not associated with major life outcomes (Silberzahn et al., 2014; Simonsohn, 2011a; Simonsohn, 2011b), excluding these drivers should not bias our sample.…”
Section: Research Setting and Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…The name letter effect has also been studied in field (Anseel & Duyck, 2008;Chandler et al, 2008;Coulter & Grewal, 2014;Gallucci, 2003;Hodson & Olson, 2005;Jones et al, 2004;Pelham et al, 2002Pelham et al, , 2003Nuttin, 1985Nuttin, , 1987. While the psychologists' studies have been criticized for lacking observational controls (for summary and critique, see Simonsohn, 2011aSimonsohn, , 2011bSilberzahn et al, 2014), two recent studies by economists report that entrepreneurs chose to name firms after themselves and doing so is associated with higher profits, higher return on assets, and fewer ownership changes (Belenzon et al, 2017), and police officers are more lenient in issuing speeding tickets for individuals who share the police officer's name (Jena et al, 2018).…”
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confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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