Connotative Meanings of First Names and Nicknames on Three Dimensions

Buchanan, Barbara A.; Bruning, James L.

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“…Garwood (1976) has shown that subjects with attractive names tend to have much lower levels of inner conflict and much higher levels of expected success than their counterparts with unattractive names. Name stereotypes may also influence the form and satisfaction an individual experiences in his personal and social relationships (Buchanan and Bruning, 1971 ;Lawson, 1971 ;McDavid and Harari, 1973). Thus, it is evident that name stereotypes exert their influence in two major ways.…”

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The Influence of Christian Name Stereotypes on the Marking of Children's Essays

Erwin

Calev

1984

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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It is argued that previous name stereotype research has been one-sided in focusing solely on stimulus characteristics. This study attempted to improve this situation by taking into account the Christian name stereotype of both the subject and stimulus figure. Subjects marked six essays each supposedly written by a different stimulus figure. A 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 ANOVA (male vs. female subjects x attractively named vs. unattractively named subjects x male vs. female stimulus figures x attractively named vs. unattractively named vs. unnamed stimulus figures) showed only two significant effects, for attractiveness of the subject's name (P = 0.031) and for attractiveness of the name of the stimulus figure (P = 0.005). This latter effect showed a significant linear trend (P < 0.005) with unattractively named stimulus figures receiving lower marks than unnamed stimulus figures who in turn received lower marks than attractively named stimulus figures. The results were related to the general literature on social relationships and the need for further integrative research was stressed. TAYNOR, J., and DEAUX, K. (1973). When women are more deserving than men: equity, attribution and perceived sex differences. J. Person. SOC. Psychol., 28, 360-367. TAYNOR, J., and DEAUX, K. (1975). Equity and perceived sex differences: role behaviour as defined by the task, the mode, and the actor. J. Person. soc. Psychol., 32, 381-390. ZAJONC, R. B. (1968). Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. J . Person. soc. Psychol., 2. Monograph (Manuscript received 15th September, 1983) P~ychol., 65, 222-225. 1-29.

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The Influence of Christian Name Stereotypes on the Marking of Children's Essays

Erwin

Calev

1984

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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“…Trends are more evident in girls' names than in boys' names. This phenomenon appears when name lists of differing years are compared (Buchanan & Bruning, 1971;Lieberson & Bell, 1992), when frequencies of girls' names and boys' names are compared with frequencies of mothers' names and fathers' names (Busse & Seraydarian, 1978), and when preferences of male and female judges of different generations (Finch, Kilgren, & Pratt, 1944) or even of different grades (Busse & Helfrich, 1975) are compared.…”

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College Students' Given Names: A Test of the Preference‐Feedback Hypothesis¹

Ellington

2001

J Applied Social Pyschol

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According to the preference‐feedback hypothesis, liking generally increases with familiarity up to a point and then declines. However, for stimuli such as given names, liking increases monotonically with familiarity, because given names that become too familiar tend to be chosen less frequently by parents, thus becoming less familiar once again. A college sample of 160 men and 211 women provided potential names for first son and first daughter, as well as reasons for their selections. Comparing given names of the research participants with names that they chose for sons and daughters, high‐frequency participants' names occurred less frequently as choices for sons and daughters' names, although this effect was significant for women's names only. Frequency was mentioned as a reason for choices by 10% to 20% of the sample, and significantly more often for daughters' names than for sons' names.

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“…Lawson (1971) used the semantic differential to characterize name stereotypes and found that men and women agreed in their evaluations of names. Buchanan and Bruning (1971) used a similar set of three dimensions and found that agreements were greater in rating male, compared with female, names.…”

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Interrelationships Among Name Desirability, Name Uniqueness, Emotion Characteristics Connoted by Names, and Temperament

Mehrabian

1992

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The subjects in Study 1 (the target group) provided their names and data on their own temperaments. The subjects in Study 2 rated the target group's names on uniqueness and desirability. The subjects in Study 3 rated the temperament qualities connoted by the names given by the target group. The name uniqueness and desirability scales had high reliabilities and correlated ‐0.44, showing that more unique names were less desirable. The qualities of pleasantness and dominance, which were connoted by a person's name, were judged very reliably. Names that connoted psychological health versus maladjustment (pleasant/ unpleasant temperament) were indeed associated with pleasant/unpleasant temperament attributes. The pleasantness and dominance connoted by names enhanced the desirability of those names, whereas greater unpleasantness and submissiveness were connoted by more unique names.

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Connotative Meanings of First Names and Nicknames on Three Dimensions

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The Influence of Christian Name Stereotypes on the Marking of Children's Essays

The Influence of Christian Name Stereotypes on the Marking of Children's Essays

College Students' Given Names: A Test of the Preference‐Feedback Hypothesis¹

Interrelationships Among Name Desirability, Name Uniqueness, Emotion Characteristics Connoted by Names, and Temperament

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Connotative Meanings of First Names and Nicknames on Three Dimensions

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The Influence of Christian Name Stereotypes on the Marking of Children's Essays

The Influence of Christian Name Stereotypes on the Marking of Children's Essays

College Students' Given Names: A Test of the Preference‐Feedback Hypothesis1

Interrelationships Among Name Desirability, Name Uniqueness, Emotion Characteristics Connoted by Names, and Temperament

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