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Nov 3, 2017 · Because you’re feeling lonely. Some people may also be more likely than others to give names to the things they use. In a 2008 study published in Psychological Science, Epley notes that people who lack social connections may try to compensate by forming connections to animals and nonhuman objects. (Epley cites the well-known — if extreme ...
- Stephanie Bucklin
The Psychology of Giving Human Names to Your Stuff Why it’s...
- Stephanie Bucklin
Our names can have these consequences because they can affect how we feel about ourselves and how others treat us. One can imagine it is difficult to be a warm, trusting person (having high ...
- Names, Identity, and Ego
- Names and Prejudice
- Reasons For Name Change
- What’s in A Name? Much Ado About Nothing?
Have you come across a single person who doesn’t know the meaning of their name? I haven’t. This goes to show how special their own names are to people. If you like your name, the way it sounds, and what it means, you feel proud of it. As someone rightly said, hearing your name is one of the sweetest sounds, especially when uttered by special peopl...
Being social species, humans are wired to gather as much information on other people off of as little information as possible. Sometimes, a person’s name can tell a lot about them. Other than communicating positive qualities, a name can also communicate: 1. Ethnicity 2. Gender 3. Religion Also, based on expectations people form from their experienc...
Now that we know names have psychological significance let’s see why people choose to change their names.
There’s no denying that names carry psychological weight. But if your identity evolves continuously, your name occupies only a tiny corner of your identity room. You realize you’re so much more than what your name reflects. It’s impossible to find a name that does justice to the multitudes that you are. At this point, you don’t take your name too s...
Aug 3, 2020 · Simon M. Laham et al. (2012) examined the impact of names in a piece aptly named “The name-pronunciation effect: Why people like Mr. Smith more than Mr. Colquhoun.”[iii] They begin by ...
May 26, 2014 · Tags. The Power of Naming. [NAMES: PART 1] The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.–Chinese Proverb. Naming things is a human need. Naming things is how we make sense of the universe. Francis Bacon popularised the saying ‘knowledge is power’ and there is power in naming things. It’s a common genesis story across a ...
May 14, 2019 · Implicit egotism is an unconscious preference for things that resemble the self. In keeping with implicit egotism, my colleagues and I reasoned that if we like our names and our birthday numbers, we should also like people, places, and things that contain (or resemble) these names or numbers. In fact, Matt Mirenberg, John Jones, and I found ...
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Jun 12, 2023 · Sometimes children feel forced to change the names they have grown up with to adapt, which can feel like being compelled to shed or reject their core identity. Others willingly change their names ...
