Have you ever looked up the meaning of your name? Do people gravitate away or towards you because of your name? Some might argue that it’s just a name, nothing more, nothing less, but there is a theory called nominative determinism. It’s the theory that people gravitate toward professions that sound like their names, as Carlyn Beccia details:
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nominative determinism — the theory that people gravitate toward professions that sound like their names. Even the father of modern psychology, Dr. Sigmond Freud’s surname means “joy” in German. Now you know why he connected all our motivations with sex.
Psychologists have theorized that nominative determinism is a form of implicit egotism — the unconscious drive for humans to gravitate towards anything similar to ourselves. Researchers found that people are more likely to choose professions and residences that resemble their names.
I may be trapped by my ego too. My name is CarLYN and I live in the town of LYNNfield. Coincidence? (Although I should have become a car salesman then and not an author/illustrator.)
So yeah, don’t name your kid “Dick,” or you might end up with a future pornstar.
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Source: neatorama