People Like Us

Moving Beyond eHealth Systems for 'People Like Us'

and Objective The tendency to design personal ehealth systems for well to do technically literate professionals, rather than average or disadvantaged users (the PLU problem), has been described previously, but is not yet well understood. This interactive workshop will introduce attendees to the PLU problem, expose them to a simulated experience of being a disadvantaged system user, and encourag...

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A Self-Reference Effect on Memory for People: We Are Particularly Good at Retrieving People Named Like Us

In the present study, it was evaluated whether one's own name may produce a self-reference bias in memory for people. Results from Experiment 1 indicated that, in a verbal fluency task, participants recalled a greater number of known (familiar or famous) people with the same first name as their own than did paired participants, and vice versa. In the first experiment, paired participants knew e...

Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US

Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US This study examines the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, a period in which the frequency of English and European names among authors fell relative to the frequency of names from China and other developing countries. We find that persons of similar ...

Nber Working Paper Series Collaborating with People like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the Us

This study examines the ethnic identify of the authors of over 1.5 million scientific papers written solely in the US from 1985 to 2008. In this period the proportion of US-based authors with English and European names fell while the proportion of US-based authors with names from China and other developing countries increased. The evidence shows that persons of similar ethnicity coauthor togeth...