The effect on expected job success on the connotative meanings of names and nicknames.
A study was conducted to examine whether expectations of job success are related to the degree of match between the femininity or masculinity of women's or men's names and the stereotypic femininity or masculinity of planned occupations. Data were drawn from a sample of 10 women and 10 men from a U...
| Published in: | Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 140; no. 2; pp. 197 - 202 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
April 2000
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| Summary: | A study was conducted to examine whether expectations of job success are related to the degree of match between the femininity or masculinity of women's or men's names and the stereotypic femininity or masculinity of planned occupations. Data were drawn from a sample of 10 women and 10 men from a U.S. university. The findings revealed that the greater the match among the gender of names, the participants' ratings of the femininity or masculinity of those names, and the femininity or masculinity of planned occupations, the greater the expected likelihood of job success. |
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