Talk:Name-letter effect

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Nuttin (1985) defined the name letter effect as follows: When people rate their liking for the letters of the alphabet, they like the letters contained in their own names more than other letters and more than other people like these same letter.

He just talked about liking letters. If Bill is moving to Georgia, for example, this is called implicit egoism, as I understand it. 84.59.133.188 (talk) 13:40, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dash or hyphen

The way I interpret MOS:DASH and MOS:HYPHEN leads me to conclude that the en dash in Name–letter effect is wrong. En dash for diode–transistor logic, eye–hand coordination because the elements are independent, one does not modify the other. But in name-letter effect, name does modify letter, it's a type of letter that we're talking about, a name letter (no hyphen). So the proposal is to change Name–letter effect into Name-letter effect. Edwininlondon (talk) 21:31, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure I am being stupid, Edwininlondon, but I can't see the early history of this article. Where would it be? --John (talk) 22:28, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

John: this appears to be a cut and paste move, the early history is here. Eman 235/talk 02:28, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

John:The article was originally created with an en dash. When I changed it to hyphen I didn't know how to do it while preserving history. Thanks for retrieving, Eman235! Edwininlondon (talk) 06:22, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, both of you. Does anybody remember how to do a history merge? John (talk) 07:29, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think I have fixed it. --John (talk) 23:45, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, that didn't do it. Let me think. --John (talk) 13:03, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to try something else. Hope it works, it's been a while since I did this. --John (talk) 21:04, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That seems to have worked; I think I succeeded in merging the histories, which as you know is essential for our licensing. Instructions are at WP:CUTPASTE if you are interested. --John (talk) 21:12, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Visuals

This article is (understandably) a little sparse on visuals, and has nothing for the lead section. The ideal one would probably be an image of people participating in a study demonstrating the effect, but even something like a photo of someone whose name begins with a letter standing in front of a giant version of that letter (maybe at one of those conventions for people with the same name or something?) would be very nice. It should also be very possible to get portrait photos of some of the people involved in discovering the effect and add them. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:45, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]