Wall Street Journal: What's in a name?

Release Date: June 21, 2011 This content is archived.

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An article in the Wall Street Journal about disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner suggests memorable names can be both a blessing and a curse, and notes that in a widely cited paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, UB researchers found that people were more likely to choose professions with names that are similar to their own first names.

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