# In an op-ed, Prof. Adam Alter explores the connection between names and personal characteristics

1 Faculty News April 4, 2013 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_041305.jpg?itok=Pq8FxIc_)>

Excerpt from [Science Friday](http://www.sciencefriday.com/blogs/04/04/2013/would-usain-bolt-run-more-slowly-with-the-name-usain-plod.html) -- "When Carl Jung, one of the most famous psychiatrists of the 20th century, once wondered why he was so fixated on the concept of rebirth, the answer arrived in a flash of insight: his name meant “young,” and from birth he had been preoccupied by the concepts of youth, aging, and rebirth."

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