An Own-Name Bias on Person Memory in Twins
It has been previously shown that participants recall a greater number of known (familiar or famous) people with the same first name as their own than do paired participants, and vice versa. For example, if Mary and Sarah were paired, Mary recalled, on average, more people called “Mary” but fewer p...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2018-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2142 |