What's in a Name?

Can your name pull you to certain professions? Yes, says Psychology Today in the March/April 2010 issue.

I can attest to this.

When I hand people my card or introduce myself, I am often get a cocked head or a quizzcial double-take. Then, invariably, the a comment about my last name.

Yep, I'm a writer with the last name Wright.

And that's not a fluke, says Dr. Lewis Lipsitt of Brown University who has collected names that matched their bearers' vocations, such as Dr. Fish who founded the Oceanographic Insitute and Robin Fox who authored a book on animal behavior.

But why? Lippsitt believes we may be oriented toward the "calling" of our name, become more interested in the subject.

He's working on a book about his theory.