{"id":2253,"date":"2007-11-15T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/nameletter_effe\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:15:09","slug":"nameletter_effe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/nameletter_effe\/","title":{"rendered":"Name-Letter Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2007-11-15-name-game_N.htm\">This<\/a> is odd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Psychologists in marketing at Yale and the University of California, San Diego studying the unconscious influence of names say a preference for our own names and initials &#8212; the &#8220;name-letter effect&#8221; &#8212; can have some negative consequences.<br \/>\nStudents whose names begin with C or D get lower grades than those whose names begin with A or B; major league baseball players whose first or last names began with K (the strikeout-signifying letter) are significantly more likely to strike out, according to the report published in the December issue of <em>Psychological Science<\/em>.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nThe researchers say the effect is definitely more than coincidence but is small nevertheless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the large sample size in this research, I&#8217;m still skeptical, viewing it kind of like this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos21.flickr.com\/32571460_ad3d9f30bd.jpg\"><br \/>\nThen again, I don&#8217;t claim to understand human psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/nameletter_effe\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Name-Letter Effect\"><p>This is odd: Psychologists in marketing at Yale and the University of California, San Diego studying the unconscious influence of names say a preference for our own names and initials &#8212; the &#8220;name-letter effect&#8221; &#8212; can have some negative consequences. Students whose names begin with C or D get lower grades than those whose names [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}