It might sound far-fetched, but psychological researchers claim to have found evidence that your name can determine the direction of your life. In a study published in the Journal of Personality ...

Certain sounds, or phonemes, seem to carry specific meaning. Researchers have shown that people associate nonwords with ...

This is a phenomenon called nominative determinism – the idea that people tend to gravitate toward areas of work that fit their names. Examples of people with well-matched names and careers are ...

But it’s Florence Knapp’s new novel, The Names, that’s a future classic. Curiously, her only other book is a non-fiction ...

Many psychologists defend determinism thinking that they are defending the notion of causality itself. They think, science studies causes, and if we abandon causation, we cannot do science.

The paper remains live. Accordingly, Feedback would like to nominate the journal Intelligence for the 2025 Reverse Nominative Determinism Award. Forty lashes ...