How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Js
Implicit Egotism and Interpersonal Attraction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6199716 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John T Jones, Brett W Pelham (0000-0003-3185-2196, University at Buffalo, State University of New York), Mauricio Carvallo (0000-0002-6067-0458, University at Buffalo, State University of New York), Matthew C Mirenberg (Columbia University) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 665-683 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.87.5.665 |
| PMID | 15535778 |
| OpenAlex | W2135252278 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 73 |
| References cited | 81 |
From the perspective of implicit egotism people should gravitate toward others who resemble them because similar others activate people's positive, automatic associations about themselves. Four archival studies and 3 experiments supported this hypothesis. Studies 1-4 showed that people are disproportionately likely to marry others whose first or last names resemble their own. Studies 5-7 provided experimental support for implicit egotism. Participants were more attracted than usual to people (a) whose arbitrary experimental code numbers resembled their own birthday numbers, (b) whose surnames shared letters with their own surnames, and (c) whose jersey number had been paired, subliminally, with their own names. Discussion focuses on implications for implicit egotism, similarity, and interpersonal attraction
Attraction · Interpersonal attraction · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal relationship · Linguistics · Perspective (graphical) · Similarity (geometry) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Real feelings for virtual people
What is implicit bias
Name Letter Branding
Anxiety and self-esteem before surgery in patients suffering from cancer. Implicit self-esteem compensation in ego-threatening conditions
Implicit self-esteem
Assessing the Validity of Implicit Egotism
Romantic red
Same-gender and cross-gender peer acceptance and peer rejection and their relation to bullying and helping among preadolescents
Behavioral Ethics Meets Behavioral Law and Economics
Construal-level theory of psychological distance.
Close Relationships
Attitudes
Automaticity and the Unconscious
Close Relationships
Dynamics of Identity
Social Cognition
Social Relationships in Adulthood
Identity-based consumer behavior
Goals, Attention, and (Un)Consciousness
Motivational and Emotional Aspects of the Self
Is Red Really Romantic
Name Letter Matching and Implicit Egotism
The functions of emotion-referencing names in Ibibio
Attraction, Social Presence, Sociability, and Booking Intentions
Effects of Nonverbal Immediacy and Similarity on Perceptions of Likability and Friendship Potential
Ideological Favoritism and In-Group Favoritism
Moderators of the Liking Bias in Judgments of Moral Character
Mechanism underlying the self‐enhancement effect of voice attractiveness evaluation
The judicial superego
Letter labels and illusory correlation
Self-recognition shapes evaluations of (self-) voice attractiveness
Social autonomy ≠ social empowerment
You’re red, I’m blue, so I don’t like you
Does Hard Work Pay Off? The Influence of Perceived Effort on Romantic Attraction
Domains of Similarity and Attraction in Three Types of Relationships
Validating Measures of Leader Authenticity
Not in my back yard
Algorithmic personalization of source cues in the filter bubble
Social ecology of similarity
Extending the Similarity-Attraction Effect
The relationship between endowment and ownership effects in memory across cultures
Evolutionary Social Cognition
Implicit self-esteem compensation
When bias binds
Implicit misattribution as a mechanism underlying evaluative conditioning
State-trait decomposition of Name Letter Test scores and relationships with global self-esteem
Mere belonging
Not Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
The exploration of implicit aspects of self-esteem in vulnerability – stress models of depression
When Tex and Tess Carpenter Build Houses in Texas
Nicknames Increase Longevity
The Death Effect in Literary Evaluation
The impact of alexithymia on initial interactions
Influence of Names on Career Choices in Medicine
Ambivalence, Avoidance, and Appeal
Implicit Egotism on the Baseball Diamond
Being liked is more than having a good personality
Regulating connection
Bad riddance or good rubbish? Ownership and not loss aversion causes the endowment effect
Do moniker maladies afflict name letter brands? A dual process theory of name letter branding and avoidance effects
Red enhances women's attractiveness to men
Interpersonal similarity as a social distance dimension
The effects of name similarity on message processing and persuasion
Gender moderates the relation between implicit and explicit self-esteem
The Endowment Effect as Self-Enhancement in Response to Threat
Parental Investment Is Biased toward Children Named for Their Fathers
Perceptual prioritization of self-associated voices
Similarity as a safe haven
Dating in the fast lane
Alliteration in Mate Selection
Culture and Mobility Determine the Importance of Similarity in Friendship
Implicit Self-Referencing
The Last Name Effect
Handbook of Social Psychology
Advances In Experimental Social Psychology
The acquaintance process.
Society and the Adolescent Self-Image
Reflectivity and learning from aversive events
Some Experiments on the Recognition of Speech, with One and with Two Ears
Subliminal Mere Exposure
Neurobiology of the structure of personality
Action, Emotion, and Personality
The psychophysiological basis of introversion-extraversion
Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior
Assortative mating, or who marries whom?
Implicit Self-Esteem in Japan
Implicit social cognition
The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure.
The Psychology of Self-Affirmation
Telling more than we can know
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
The attraction paradigm
Association learning of likes and dislikes
Assessing the Validity of Implicit Egotism
Compensatory self-inflation
Affective consequences of mere ownership
Minimal conditions for the creation of a unit relationship
Names, Identity, and Self
Us and them
Automaticity of social behavior
Affect, cognition, and awareness
Distinguishing BIS-mediated and BAS-mediated disinhibition mechanisms
Spontaneous trait transference
Using the Implicit Association Test to measure self-esteem and self-concept
Attitudinal effects of mere exposure
Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, and affective responses to impending reward and punishment
Residential Propinquity as a Factor in Marriage Selection
Two Roads to Positive Regard
Masked affective priming by name letters
Name Letter Preferences Are Not Merely Mere Exposure
Mood and memory
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
Desirable responding triggered by affect
What's in a name
Self-reference and the encoding of personal information
Mood, misattribution, and judgments of well-being
On the social nature of nonsocial perception
Are there "his" and "hers" types of interdependence? The implications of gender differences in collective versus relational interdependence for affect, behavior, and cognition
Facilitating effects of "eating-while-reading" on responsiveness to persuasive communications
Behavioral activation and inhibition in everyday life
Alphabet and attraction
Stalking the perfect measure of implicit self-esteem
The repulsion hypothesis
The cessation of rumination through self-affirmation
Predicting marital dissolution
I Sell Seashells by the Seashore and My Name Is Jack
I Like Myself but I Don't Know Why
Why Susie sells seashells by the seashore
The relation between perception and behavior, or how to win a game of Trivial Pursuit
Self-presentation by association
Inferred evaluation and the relation between attitude similarity and interpersonal attraction
Self-esteem and the cognitive accessibility of strengths and weaknesses after failure
Personality and susceptibility to positive and negative emotional states
Patterns of individualism and collectivism across the United States
Social Pressures in Informal Groups
Relational schemas and the processing of social information
When small effects are impressive
Beyond behaviorism
Exposure and affect
Attitudes established by classical conditioning
| Unique citing works | 73 |
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| Citations per year | 3,17 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |