BRIEF DESCRIPTION
What Is It? The Emotional Person Namer is an enhanced
character-naming or baby-naming dictionary that provides traditional meanings of names
(like any ordinary character-naming or baby-naming product) and also the emotional,
or connotative, associations for each name. These connotative meanings show how
society at
large feels emotionally about each name.
How Would I Use It? People form impressions of other people, sight
unseen, based on how first names resonate emotionally (e.g. compare Vito and Olga
with Michael and Julia). Naming a child based on the reality of
emotional connotations makes much more sense than naming a child based on historical or
traditional meaning (the basis of ordinary "naming" books and software) that few
people know or care about. Emotion-based naming also applies to fictitious characters.
Knowing precisely which emotional buttons a character's name is likely to push in a
general audience enables a writer to deliberately cast characters "with" type or
"against" type with greater accuracy.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION AND IMAGES
Emotional Person Namer books and
software will be the only "naming" products on the market that provide precise
and accurate information on how society at large reacts emotionally to people's first
names. This is vitally important, because other people form initial impressions about us
based on how they feel about our names, before they even meet us.
For example, a standard naming book only
tells us that the name Emily originated from the German language and has the
historical meaning, "industrious" The Emotional Person Namer, however,
shows us that, far from being associated with "industriousness," the name Emily
actually evokes feelings of tenderness and vulnerability, as indicated by a very low
intensity of power. This demonstrates how far removed from reality the historical
definition of Emily really is.
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The strongest emotional connotations for
the name Barbie are negative connotations of humiliation, no doubt because of the
public image of the Barbie doll.
As a product incorporating
Connotative Intelligence™ technology, the Emotional Person Namer is sensitive to this
public image, picks it up, and reflects it in the connotative profile for the name Barbie.
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Two names that are actually connonyms
are Jennifer and Brendan. That is, people associate the names Jennifer
and Brendan with exactly the same combination of emotional connotations.
Again, the standard historical meanings of
these two names, found in ordinary baby naming products, are completely out of touch with
the way people today actually feel emotionally about these names.
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