Nicholas Christenfeld and Britta Larsen on The Name Game
Nicholas Christenfeld and Britta Larsen write about The Name Game, exploring subtle effects associated with your name. [via Mind Hacks]
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Should they injure themselves celebrating their successes, those [with names] early in the alphabet, when discussed by medical staff, also receive four minutes more attention than those whose names come late in the alphabet, and whose cases are thus taken up correspondingly late in the staff meeting (Singh et al., 2006). Whether that additional attention from teams of physicians would benefit or unfit them is not examined.