Ahead of Others in the Authorship Order: Names With Middle Initials Appear Earlier in Author Lists of Academic Articles in Psychology
Middle name initials are often used by people in contexts where intellectual performance matters. Given this association, middle initials in people’s names indicate intellectual capacity and performance (Van Tilburg & Igou, 2014). In the current research, we examined whether middle initials are...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00469/full |