Moniker Maladies: When Names Sabotage Success

Leif D. Nelson, J. Simmons
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People like their names enough to unconsciously approach consciously-avoided name-resembling outcomes. Baseball players avoid strikeouts, but players with strikeout-signifying K-initials strike out more than others (Study 1). All students want A's, but C- and D-initialed students find initial-resembling outcomes less aversive and achieve lower GPAs (Study 2), particularly if they like their initials (Study 3). Because lower GPAs lead to lesser graduate schools, C- and D-initialed students go to lower ranked law schools than their A- and B-initialed counterparts (Study 4). Finally, in an experimental design, participants perform worse when a consolation prize shares their first initial (Study 5). These findings provide striking evidence that unconscious wants can insidiously undermine conscious pursuits.
绰号病:当名字破坏成功
人们非常喜欢自己的名字,以至于无意识地接近有意识避免的与名字相似的结果。棒球运动员避免三振出局,但具有三振出局含义的k首字母的球员比其他人更容易三振出局(研究1)。所有学生都想要A,但C和d首字母的学生发现类似于A的结果不那么令人厌恶,并且获得较低的gpa(研究2),特别是如果他们喜欢自己的首字母(研究3)。由于gpa较低导致较少的研究生院,C和d首字母的学生比A和b首字母的学生进入排名较低的法学院(研究4)。在一项实验设计中,当安慰奖与他们的第一个名字相同时,参与者的表现更差(研究5)。这些发现提供了惊人的证据,证明无意识的需求会暗中破坏有意识的追求。
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