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Turns out a huge part of our social interactions are founded on our ability to name things. Names carry associations and references to other features of our culture. This means that we have biases and automatic relations to names. Savvy advocates use this bias to influence opinions for their causes. It’s a surprisingly interesting aspect of our psychology.

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Links for Today:

Bertrand, M., & Mullainathan, S. (2004). Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. The American Economic Review, 94(4), 991-1013. Retrieved January 17, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3592802
Jacquet, J. L. and Pauly, D. (2008) Trade secrets: renaming and mislabeling of seafood. Marine Policy 32: 309-318. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308597X07000760
Karaffa, P.T., M.M. Draheim, and Parsons, E.C.M. (2012) What’s in a name? Do species’ names impact student support for conservation? Human Dimensions of Wildlife 17: 308-310. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10871209.2012.676708?journalCode=uhdw20
Rasmussen, G.S.A. (1999) Livestock predation by the painted hunting dog Lycaon pictus in a cattle ranching region of Zimbabwe: a case study. Biological Conservation 88: 133–139. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320798000068?via%3Dihub
Sarasa M., Alasaad S., and Pérez J.M. (2012) Common names of species, the curious case of Capra pyrenaica and the concomitant steps towards the 'wild-to-domestic' transformation of a flagship species and its vernacular names. Biodiversity and Conservation 21:1–12. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-011-0172-3
Scott, C. (2015) Otter social science research: An evaluation of the general public’s knowledge of otter species. (Master’s thesis) George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Retrieved from digilib.gmu.edu/ xmlui/handle/1920/10282
Wright, A., Veríssimo, D., Pilfold, K., Parsons, E. C. M., Ventre, K., Cousins, J., et al. (2015). Competitive outreach in the 21st Century: why we need conservation marketing. Ocean & Coastal Management 115: 41–48. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569115001829
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/study-finds-seafood-mislabeled-illegal/#:~:text=Sea%20bass%20and%20snapper%20were,were%20marketed%20as%20wild%20caught. (National Geographic article on mislabeling fish)
https://www.anesi.com/presname.htm (US Presidential Candidates with more syllables win elections more often than candidates with fewer syllables)
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/07/02/name-changes-ellis-island#:~:text=More%20commonly%2C%20immigrants%20would%20change,for%20a%20number%20of%20reasons.&text=Someone%20might%20change%20their%20name,it%20was%20good%20for%20business (Why immigrants change their names)
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/century.html (Common US baby names)
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/researchers-new-study-method-catches-resume-bias.aspx (Gender bias in fictitious resumes)

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