celebrities: Choice among Celebrities

Description Usage Format Source Examples

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

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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

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data(celebrities)
celebrities["LBJ", "HW"]  # 159 participants chose Johnson over Wilson

Example output

[1] 159

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