eba (version 1.10-0)

celebrities: Choice among Celebrities

Description

Rumelhart and Greeno (1971) presented 234 participants with pairs of names of nine celebrities: the politicians L. B. Johnson (LBJ), Harold Wilson (HW), and Charles De Gaulle (CDG); the athletes Johnny Unitas (JU), Carl Yastrzemski (CY), and A. J. Foyt (AJF); the actresses Brigitte Bardot (BB), Elizabeth Taylor (ET), and Sophia Loren (SL). Participants were instructed to choose the person with whom they would rather spend an hour of discussion.

Usage

data(celebrities)

Format

A square data frame containing the absolute choice frequencies and a diagonal of zeros; row stimuli are chosen over column stimuli.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(celebrities)
celebrities["LBJ", "HW"]  # 159 participants chose Johnson over Wilson
# }