Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs

Characteristic Attributed to Individuals on the Basis of Their First Names.(Statistical Data Included)

Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs | February 1, 2001 | Copyright

THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF NAMES has been an important variable in the study of psychological reactions to, or characteristics of, individuals with different names. Typically, name attractiveness has been described with global variables of liking, preference, or desirability (Busse & Seraydarian, 1978, 1979; Erwin & Calev, 1984; Garwood, Cox, Kaplan, Wasserman, & Sulzer, 1980; Harari & McDavid, 1973; West & Shults, 1976).

The semantic differential technique (Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957) has been used as an alternative to global assessments of name attractiveness and has…

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