Name and Facial Feature Stereotyping

Abstract

25 names and faces which had been previously scaled with respect to perceived degree of masculinity-femininity were presented to 28 Ss whose task was to match the name which seemed most appropriate to each of the photographs. The results indicated that Ss associated names with faces which had similar connotations.

Effects of social stimulus value on academic achievement and social competence: A reconsideration of children's first-name characteristics.

“…Requests for reprints should be sent to Martin E. Ford, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305. sociated with different stereotypic conceptions; in particular, negative stereotypes are typically ascribed to names low in frequency or desirability (Allen, Brown, Dickinson, & Pratt, 1941;Bruning & Husa, 1972;Bruning & Liebert, 1973;Buchanan & Bruning, 1971;Gladding & Farrar, 1982;Lawson, 1971;McDavid & Harari, 1966;Nelson 1977). These stereotypes are evidently well formed by the early school-age years (Bruning & Husa, 1972).…”