A woman’s professional name change can coincide with a major publication milestone

Evidence

In 1966, I married Robert Brewer (also a social psychologist), and Marilynn Bolt became Marilynn B. Brewer at the time that my master’s thesis (on the then “hot” topic of adding vs. averaging models of information integration in person perception [Brewer, 1968a]) was accepted for publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2469