What Does Your Name Say About You?

Описание: What’s in a name? Can our names predict our futures? Tara explains how our names affect our lives!

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Liking for name predicts happiness: A behavioral genetic analysis
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
“Research has established that humans tend to view their names in a positive light and liking for one’s name is positively associated with subjective well-being.”

Boys Named Sue: Disruptive Children And Their Peers
http://www.nber.org/papers/w11277.pdf...
“This paper proposes an unusual identification strategy to estimate the effects of students on peer behavior and academic outcomes.”

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
http://public.econ.duke.edu/~hf14/tea...

The Causes And Consequences Of Distinctively Black Names
http://www.nber.org/papers/w9938.pdf?...
“In the 1960’s, Blacks and Whites chose relatively similar first names for their children.”

Names and Personality
http://www.behindthename.com/articles...
“A number of years ago, the newspapers ran a story about a young man who re-enlisted in the Navy during the time he was hospitalized for tonsillitis. Ordinarily, an event like this wouldn't attract public notice. What gave this story its appeal, though, was the fact that the man's name was Tonsillitis Jackson, who, along with his brother Meningitis, had helped his parents care for his sisters Laryngitis, Appendicitis, and Peritonitis (Smith).”

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Why Mom Gets Your Name Wrong
   • Why Your Mom Calls You The Wrong Name  
TestTube Wild Card
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How Storms Get Named
   • How We Name Big Storms  

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