Historical and socioeconomic predictors of the emotional associations of sounds in popular names

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 451-456

  Whissell, Cynthia ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NOMENCLATURE; PHONETICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ASSOCIATION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NAMES; PHONETICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 33846203894     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.103.2.451-456     Document Type: Article

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