The Bizarre Ways Your Name Affects Your Behaviour

2015-03-12

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We love ourselves, and our names, more than we consciously realise. Research has found this implicit egotism has some pretty interesting effects.

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http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/hortonr/articles%20for%20class/pelham,%20mirenberg,%20and%20jones%20implicit%20egotism.pdf

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