A nickname such as, “F1 Frank,” would allude to Frank’s tendency to drive like a race-car driver. Seemingly positive nicknames are good ways to implicitly label someone as predictable.įor instance, if your friend Frank’s speedy driving makes you feel unsafe being in his passenger seat, you can assign a seemingly positive nickname which would make him feel predictable. They would likely attempt to shed whatever label makes them seem predictable. If they were labeled to be predictable, a shift of behavior is rather easy to predict.
It would make them feel uninteresting, unintimidating, and weak. The people you interact with however, typically know that predictability is a trait they don’t want to possess. Those who take note of how predictable even the most powerful people are in their domain, would be able to dance around their predictable behaviors. A predictable violent tendency and desire for power in an individual is in itself still a weakness. On either side of the coin of predictability is weakness. On the other hand, a friend who gravitates toward seemingly every altercation they can find, would encourage you to be more subtle in your approaches to change their mind. Predictable individuals are often seen as having no backbone, or having too much of it.Ī friend who predictably does not enjoy altercations will make you feel safe in being authoritative around them. Their existence in this world is easily figured out – and is simple for that matter.
A predictable individual doesn’t have the ability to surprise us. Predictability in people is seen as a weakness. Good Nicknames: The Desire to Be Unpredictable On the other hand, negative nicknames such as “Negative Nancy,” can do well in motivating individuals to prove their nicknames wrong. Seemingly positive nicknames, such as “Nice Guy,” can elicit a reaction to not be so predictable in those who you give that nickname to. By anticipating a person’s reaction to a potential nickname, you can strategically assign those nicknames.īelow, two types of nicknames will be explored. Our desire to not be predictable plays an important role in how we interpret nicknames given to us. Others however, can be effective tools to elicit a change of behavior in the person who you’ve given a nickname to. After ensuring of your well-being, your friends may have gone on to refer to you as, “Stair-master.” Like in the example above, nicknames can be humorous and relatively harmless. Your act of falling down the stairs in public, for example, could have been humorous to onlookers. One embarrassing instance could have given birth to a nickname which references that embarrassing event. As life went on, people may have given you nicknames you didn’t agree with. Nicknames though, can serve different purposes. Knowing and using your friend’s nickname in everyday interactions signifies a closeness which is difficult to match without a significant amount of time being invested into the relationship. People who know our nicknames are typically regarded as closer in relation than people who do not. In your childhood years, you may have had a nickname which others used to communicate with, and about, you. Bad Nicknames: The Desire to Prove People Wrong.Good Nicknames: The Desire to Be Unpredictable.
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