Publications by authors named "James Wilkie"

Context: Gallstone disease is a major health problem addressed by general surgeons, with approximate incidence of 10-15% in the Western world. With increasing focus in the healthcare literature on cost containment, controlling excess lengths of hospital stay (LOS) in this population is paramount. The aim of this study was to determine the factors that influence LOS in cholecystectomy patients to examine whether results would indicate a possible improvement in perioperative patient care and decrease costs at our community hospital in a suburban setting.

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Do numbers have gender? Wilkie and Bodenhausen (2012) examined this issue in a series of experiments on perceived gender. They examined the perceived gender of baby faces and foreign names. Arbitrary numbers presented with these faces and names influenced their perceived gender.

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Correlational evidence indicates that materialistic individuals experience relatively low levels of well-being. Across four experiments, we found that situational cuing can also trigger materialistic mind-sets, with similarly negative personal and social consequences. Merely viewing desirable consumer goods resulted in increases in materialistic concerns and led to heightened negative affect and reduced social involvement (Experiment 1).

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We examined the possibility that nonsocial, highly generic concepts are gendered. Specifically, we investigated the gender connotations of Arabic numerals. Across several experiments, we show that the number 1 and other odd numbers are associated with masculinity, whereas the number 2 and other even numbers are associated with femininity, in ways that influence judgments of stimuli arbitrarily paired with numerical cues; specifically, babies' faces and foreign names were more likely to be judged as "male" when paired with odd versus even numbers.

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