A name says more than a thousand words: The social perception of first names;Ein Vorname Sagt Mehr als 1000 Worte: Zur sozialen Wahrnehmung von Vornamen

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-31

  Rudolph, Udo ^a   Böhm, Robert ^a   Lummer, Michaela ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

First names; Social perception; Stereotypes; Timeless names; Word norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847786545     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0044-3514.38.1.17     Document Type: Article

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