心理学家分析了美国职棒球员的表现，发现不同英文姓名开头的字母会影响成就表现......

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脑袋犯昏把万能细胞割了的叫.......

Does your name define you?

Melinda Wenner , Nov. 14, 2007

-- Scientific American

Psychologists have famously found that people subconsciously gravitate towards places and jobs that resemble their names: more "Kens" live in Kentucky and more "Lauras" become lawyers, for example, than what would be predicted by chance alone. But this secret love we harbor for our names can hurt us, according to a new study published in the journal Psychological Science. If your name is associated with something bad, you might gravitate towards the bad, too.

Researchers at UC-San Diego and Yale University first looked at how baseball players' names affect their performance. The letter "K" is used to record a strikeout, so the psychologists wondered: did batters named Keith and Karl tend to strike out more often than those named John or William, since batting zero might seem, to them, a little less awful?

The psychologists analyzed 93 years of Major League Baseball performance and found that the answer, surprisingly, is yes—batters whose names began with "K" struck out more often than other batters. "Even Karl ‘Koley’ Kolseth would find a strikeout aversive, but he might find it a little less aversive than players who do not share his initials, and therefore he might avoid striking out less enthusiastically,” wrote the authors.

The psychologists moved on to school grades, analyzing 15 years of grade point averages for students graduating with MBA's from a large private American university. Here, they found a grade-name correlation: students whose names began with "C" or "D" tended to get poorer grades than those with names starting with "A" or "B." And when they looked at the distributions of students in various law schools, they found that as the quality of the schools declined, so did the proportions of students with names starting with "A" and "B."

Interestingly, however, students with "A" and "B" names performed no better than people with grade-irrelevant names, such as those starting with "M" or "N," suggesting that "A" and "B" students don't necessarily over-achieve, but that "C," "D," and "F" students might instead underachieve.

Of course, this is all still speculation—yes, the psychologists found some interesting correlations, but there's always that beast called "causality" to grapple with (not to mention the possibility that these findings could simply be coincidental). Could it be that, perhaps, dentist parents are more likely to name their children "Dennis," and could there be other reasons students named "Chris" and "Dana" do worse in school? One could, I'm sure, come up with lots of potential answers—they may not do what they do out of love for their names. (And in case you were wondering, this entry comes to you via a writer named Melinda who lives in Brooklyn. She likes her name just fine, thank you very much, but her life does not revolve around it, as far as she can tell.)