I've heard mentioned in books on psychology before about this effect, and it see...

jlees · on Jan 13, 2015

It's mentioned in "Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive"[1], which despite the title, is a really interesting book. The Freakonomics blog quotes it here:

http://freakonomics.com/2009/04/24/yes-part-ii/

referencing this paper "Why Susie Sells Seashells by the Seashore: Implicit Egotism and Life Decisions" http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/susie.pd...

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Yes-Scientifically-Proven-Ways-Persuas...

Retra · on Jan 13, 2015

We would expect people to also tend to choose their names based on their parents, as well as choosing their jobs based on their upbringing.

emodendroket · on Jan 13, 2015

That's obvious, but I would hope the psychologists purportedly studying this topic thought of that when they designed their experiment.