PSYC 104 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Arousal, Social Comparison Theory, Anxiety
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Studies of social psychology: picking names for children: choosing names for babies that start at the beginning of the alphabet don"t do better than those that start at the end of the alphabet (unless they go into economics) Most people choose nice names for children. However, most don"t pay attention to initials that can spell out good or bad things. Can pick out good initials and bad initials and see how old the person was when they died to see if there"s a correlation. There is a longevity difference: people with negative initials die younger than people with positive initials. Went to lectures and tallied the amount of times professor said um". Could be differences in number of times said depending on the subject of lecture. However, hard to gather data at individual level, because can"t compare you watching one thing spoiled vs. watching the same thing not spoiled; only know aggregate level of spoilers are enhancers.