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When I read the names of the authors - "Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg Eric R. Igou" - I was immediately impressed.
by crummy 8y ago
When I read the names of the authors - "Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg Eric R. Igou" - I was immediately impressed.
- rch 8y agoAlthough they should have asked for input from an author with a hyphenated surname.
- Nokinside 8y agoPeople who criticize the study because it's based on students in one university don't understand that the study is also a meta level demonstration of the effect. They passed the peer review. I'm in awe. Other study from them: Igou, E. R., & Van Tilburg, W. A. P. (2015). Ahead of others in the authorship order: Names with middle initials appear earlier in author lists of academic articles in psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00469 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00469/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0046...
- WhompingWindows 8y agoThere's a simple confounding reason for this. The earlier authors are in the author list, the more likely they are to be actively contributing. If there's a sparse contributor who doesn't respond, who has many papers already, or who is not actively involved in the final read-throughs, they will likely be somewhere in the middle of the author list and may miss that their middle initial is not correct. In contrast, if you are a first author, you will make damned sure your exact precise name is there, as your impact factor and future success hinges on the total number of papers you have.
- ggg9990 8y ago“Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg” is a name that almost comes with a prefab backstory. Heir to a mysterious but large fortune, Danish royalty on his father’s side with minor French nobility on his mother’s, great-great-grandson of the most decorated officer of the Crimean War, one-half owner of a castle in Lichtenstein rumored to house up to three Vermeers unknown to the outside world, and of course the grisly fratricide in the family’s history which was the talk of society at the time but has now been papered over by the family’s philanthropic efforts in arts education in the wake of the tragedy.