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Easily Pronounced Names May Make People More Likable
Wired: Though it might seem impossible, and certainly inadvisable, to judge a person by their name, a new study suggests our brains try anyway. The more pronounceable a person’s name is, the more likely people
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8 Percent of Parents Regret Their Baby’s Name, Survey Finds
ABC News: It took Kelcey Kintner nine months to conceive her baby girl’s name, Presley, but nearly a year of gnawing regret before she changed it. Kintner, a 41-year-old who blogs about parenting on Mama
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Your Name Impacts How Others Judge You
LiveScience: Alexandra will get an A in class but Amber won’t. At least, that’s what their peers expect, according to a small new study of the meanings encoded in people’s names. “The name you give
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Baby names in frontier states are more unique
The Christian Science Monitor: Baby names: The same values that pushed adventurous individuals into new territories as our country was being populated may still show up in the names their descendants give to babies, a
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Study reveals parents in frontier states more likely to give babies unusual names
The Daily Mail: If you’re called Jacob, Michael or Emily, there’s a better chance your parents will be from an an older state in the Northeast and gave you a common name, a Psychological Science
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Naming Tools Is a Hands-On Task
You don’t just need your eyes to think of the name of a tool; your hands get involved, too. A new study finds that people are slower to identify a picture of a tool if
