Fitting In or Standing Out: Trends in American Parents' Choices for Children's Names, 1880-2007

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-25

  Twenge, Jean M ^a   Abebe, Emodish M ^a   Campbell, W Keith ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; individualism; names; uniqueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952046440     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550609349515     Document Type: Article

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