PROFESSIONAL TITLES.

Titles

This is not about knights and dames, nor is it about jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington or Court Basie. Rather, it is about a most important issue in science, which is the difficult task of choosing titles for seminars, lectures, scientific papers, books and even the titles of the journals themselves. Today, we all have to compete for readers and listeners, and in the current ruthlessly com...

Pastor Paulo vs. Doctor Carlos: Professional Titles as Voting Heuristics in Brazil

In low-information elections, voters are likely to rely on heuristics when choosing candidates. Based on survey experiments conducted prior to Brazil’s 2012 municipal elections, I examine the effect of candidates’ professional titles, such as “doctor” and “pastor,” on voting behavior. Using the “pastor” title in one’s electoral name tends to decrease vote intention, although evangelical Christi...

Study titles

Inappropriate titles of abstracts.

List of Titles

Mardonnes J, Segovia N, Hederra A, Alcaino F. Influence of sulfasuxidine on the effect of alpha lipoic or thioctic acid on the voluntary alcohol intake of rats depleted of factor N1. Acta Physiol Lat Am. 1953;3(2-3):140-3. PMID: 13138254 Abstract Mardonnes J, Segovia N, Alcaino F, Hederra A. Effect of synthetic thioctic or alpha lipoic acid on the voluntary alcohol intake of rats. Science. 1954...