Would a similar ruse work in the world of scientific journal reviews? Would editors and reviewers fail to recognize already-published articles in their own journals by top authors and go on to reject them? To find out, we selected a number of recently published articles in prestigious psychology journals, had our secretary retype them verbatim, with a few changes to lightly disguise them--replacing the author's name with an unknown name, and paraphrasing the title, so it would not be mechanically detected. Then we would send these disguised articles back to the same journals that had recently published them and request the editor to consider the manuscript for publication in his (the editors were all men) journal, never hinting that his journal had already published it. Would they repeat their prior decision and accept the article for publication? Or would they reject it, citing various reasons? If the latter, it would give some credence to our colleague who complained that his work would be rejected even if it was as good as a colleague's from a prestigious university.