Journal article
Close Encounters of the Initial Kind: Implicit Self-Esteem, Name-Letter Similarity, and Social Distance
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Vol.31(1), pp.17-23
2009
Abstract
This study examined the impact of implicit egotism on social distance. Sixty-one participants with high or low implicit self-esteem were assigned to conditions where they believed they would be working with someone with the same initials as their own or someone with different initials. Participants with high implicit self-esteem sat closer to a partner who shared their initials and further from a partner with different initials. Participants with low implicit self-esteem did the opposite. No differences were observed for explicit evaluations. These results extend previous studies that have shown that implicit self-esteem influences evaluations of similar and dissimilar others.
Details
- Title
- Close Encounters of the Initial Kind: Implicit Self-Esteem, Name-Letter Similarity, and Social Distance
- Authors/Creators
- S.E. Kocan (Author/Creator) - Western Sydney UniversityG.J. Curtis (Author/Creator) - Western Sydney University
- Publication Details
- Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Vol.31(1), pp.17-23
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Identifiers
- 991005541784207891
- Copyright
- Taylor and Francis
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Citation topics
- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.73 Social Psychology
- 6.73.130 Cognitive Biases
- Web Of Science research areas
- Psychology, Social
- ESI research areas
- Psychiatry/Psychology