Birthdate and success in minor hockey: The key to the NHL
- R. Barnsley, A. Thompson
- Economics
- 1 April 1988
Previous research (Barnsley, Thompson, & Barnsley, 198S) demonstrated an extremely strong linear relationship between the month of birth (from January to December) and the likelihood of playing in…
Family Planning: Football Style. The Relative Age Effect in Football
- R. Barnsley, A. H. Thompson, Philipe Legault
- Education
- 1 March 1992
Recent studies indicate that month of birth is related to achievement in a number of sports. Birth dates were collected for all players on teams competing in the 1990 World Cup and the 1989 Under-17s…
The relative age effect and the development of self-esteem
- A. Thompson, R. Barnsley, J. Battle
- Psychology
- 1 September 2004
A recent paper has demonstrated a relationship between suicide during the teen years and the age, relative to one's classmates, at which these individuals entered school. This represents the latest,…
“Born to Play Ball” The Relative Age Effect and Major League Baseball
- A. Thompson, R. Barnsley, G. Stebelsky
- Psychology
- 1 June 1991
The records of 837 major league baseball players were examined in order to determine whether the Little League age eligibility criterion, based on the month of birth, affected participation rate at…
A New Factor in Youth Suicide: The Relative Age Effect
- A. Thompson, R. Barnsley, R. Dyck
- PsychologyCanadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne…
- 1 February 1999
The present study demonstrates that the relative age effect is also a factor in youth suicide, and suggests that the higher incidence of youth suicide in the group of relatively younger school children may have resulted from poorer school performance, which in turn led to lowered confidence and self esteem.
Handedness: Proficiency versus Stated Preference
- R. Barnsley, M. S. Rabinovitch
- PsychologyPerceptual and Motor Skills
- 1 April 1970
Results indicate that questionnaires of stated hand preference cannot adequately represent the range of handedness or degree of differential manual proficiency and suggest that preferred hand performance is characterized by “Automatization” of the skills involved in hand performance.
Variations in Severity of Verbs and Eyewitnesses' Testimony: An Alternative Interpretation
- J. Read, R. Barnsley, Kim Ankers, I. Whishaw
- Psychology, Linguistics
- 1 June 1978
96 subjects viewed three different videotaped sequences and then received testimony questions which manipulated the rated severity of verbs used to describe each event. The effects of such…
Handedness and "automatization" cognitive style.
- R. Barnsley, M. S. Rabinovitch
- PsychologyCanadian journal of psychology
- 1973
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