# Professor Adam Alter is interviewed for an article on choosing baby names

1 Faculty News March 12, 2019 ![The Cut logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/the-cut-logo-feature.jpg?itok=Sb35WUpa)>

Excerpt from [The Cut](https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/why-cant-i-stop-dreaming-of-baby-names.html) -- “Discussing name preferences is a safer way of discussing our views about the world. Names carry so much information — we associate them with age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, nationality and personality traits. If two people disagree about name preferences, that might reflect bigger disagreements.”"

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