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Beauty Is More than “Name” Deep: The Effect of Women's First Names on Ratings of Physical Attractiveness and Personality Attributes
Author(s) -
Hassebrauck Manfred
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1988.tb02350.x
Subject(s) - attractiveness , physical attractiveness , psychology , personality , beauty , social psychology , aesthetics , art , psychoanalysis
This study investigated the effects of first names on ratings of physical attractiveness and personality attributes. Pictures of female targets varying in physical attractiveness (low, medium, high) were assigned a desirable, neutral, or undesirable first name. In a control group, targets were presented without a first name. Both physical attractiveness ratings and ratings of personality attributes were influenced by targets' physical attractiveness irrespective of the assigned first name.