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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.
Source
Rumelhart, D.L., & Greeno, J.G. (1971). Similarity between stimuli: An experimental test of the Luce and Restle choice models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 8, 370–381. doi: 10.1016/0022-2496(71)90038-1
Examples
data(celebrities)
celebrities["LBJ", "HW"] # 159 participants chose Johnson over Wilson