“Mr de Bussy” is More Employable than “Mr Bussy”: The Impact of a Particle Associated with the Surname of an Applicant in a Job Application Evaluation Context
Previous studies examining the effect of surnames on evaluations have shown that surnames are associated with connotations which influence how we evaluate people. In this experiment, conducted in France, we examined the effect of the nobiliary particle “de” associated with a surname in a job applic...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2017-04-01
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| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2114 |