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===Name=== Discrimination based on a person's name may also occur, with researchers suggesting that this form of discrimination is present based on a name's meaning, its pronunciation, its uniqueness, its gender affiliation, and its racial affiliation.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 =Silberzhan | first1 =Raphael | title =It Pays to be Herr Kaiser | journal =Psychological Science | volume =24 | issue =12 | pages =2437–2444 | date =May 19, 2013 | doi =10.1177/0956797613494851 | pmid =24113624 | s2cid =30086487 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last =Laham | first =Simon | title =The name-pronunciation effect: Why people like Mr. Smith more than Mr. Colquhoun | journal =Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | volume=48 | issue =2012 | pages =752–756 | date =December 9, 2011 | doi =10.1016/j.jesp.2011.12.002 | s2cid =6757690 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last =Cotton | first =John | title =The "name game": affective and hiring reactions to first names | journal =Journal of Managerial Psychology | volume =23 | issue =1 | pages =18–39 | date =July 2007 | doi =10.1108/02683940810849648 | s2cid =4484088 | url =https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=mgmt_fac }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last =Bertrand | first =Marianne | title =Are Emily and Brendan More Employable than Lakisha and Jamaal? | journal =The American Economic Review | volume =94 | issue =4 | pages =991–1013 | date =September 2004 | doi =10.1257/0002828042002561 | url =http://s3.amazonaws.com/fieldexperiments-papers2/papers/00216.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Easton | first=Stephen | title=Blind recruiting study suggests positive discrimination common in the APS | newspaper=The Mandarin | date=June 30, 2017 }}</ref> Research has further shown that real world recruiters spend an average of just six seconds reviewing each résumé before making their initial "fit/no fit" screen-out decision and that a person's name is one of the six things they focus on most.<ref>{{cite news | last = Smith | first =Jacquelyn | title =Here's What Recruiters Look At In The 6 Seconds They Spend On Your Résumé | newspaper =Business Insider | date =November 4, 2014 }}</ref> France has made it illegal to view a person's name on a résumé when screening for the initial list of most qualified candidates. Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands have also experimented with name-blind summary processes.<ref>{{cite news | title =No names, no bias | newspaper =The Economist | date =October 29, 2015 }}</ref> Some apparent discrimination may be explained by other factors such as name frequency.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 =Silberzhan | first1=Raphael | last2=Simonsohn | first2=Uri | last3=Uhlmann| first3=Eric| title =Matched-Names Analysis Reveals No Evidence of Name-Meaning Effects: A Collaborative Commentary on Silberzahn and Uhlmann | journal = Psychological Science | volume =25 | issue =7 | pages =1504–1505 | date =February 4, 2014|url=http://www.socialjudgments.com/docs/Silberzahn_Simonsohn_Uhlmann_2014_Collaborative_Commentary_and_Online_Supplement.pdf | doi=10.1177/0956797614533802 | pmid=24866920 | s2cid=26814316 }}</ref> The effects of name discrimination based on a name's fluency is subtle, small and subject to significantly changing norms.<ref>{{cite news | title =The Power of Names | newspaper =The New York Times | date =May 29, 2013 }}</ref>
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