Sex bias in the naming of stimulus persons.

By Joseph Kasof. 1993

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Moral signals, public outrage, and immaterial harms (2011, background): “Participants read a scenario involving two persons, “John” and “Robert” (two names identified as similar in intelligence, age, and other connotations; see Kasof, 1993).”
The Gender Stereotyping of Emotions (2000, background): “The names Karen and Brian are matched on several factors, including attractiveness (Kasof, 1993).”
"I think it, therefore it's true": Effects of self-perceived objectivity on hiring discrimination. (2007, methodology): “The job applicant was described either as male (‘‘Gary’’) or as female (‘‘Lisa’’).”
Female first, leader second? Gender bias in the encoding of leadership behavior (2006, background): “3 Research has demonstrated that diVerences do exist in terms of how names are perceived (Kasof, 1993); names convey information”
There’s More Than Meets the Eye: Facial Appearance and Evaluations of Transsexual People (2010, background): “The names given to the vignette characters, “Brian” and “Karen,” were selected because these opposite-gender stimulus names receive similar ratings on attractiveness and competence (Kasof 1993).”
Mothers and Fathers in the Workplace: How Gender and Parental Status Influence Judgments of Job‐Related Competence (2004, unknown): “The names Kenneth and Katherine were chosen because they convey a nonspecific age (Kasof, 1993) and roughly equal intellectual competence (Mehrabian, 1990; J. Kasof, personal communication, January 19, 2001).”
Name Norms: A Guide to Casting Your Next Experiment (2018, background): “As just one more example, although Kasof (1993) identified the name “Anne” as being an “older adult” name, 30 years earlier, most research participants in a study by Sheppard (1963) assumed that Anne was a young woman.”
What's in a Forename? Cue Familiarity and Stereotypical Thinking ☆ ☆☆ ★ (2002, background): “For example, participants may be require form impressions of, or memorize information about, targets namedMartin and Sue(see Kasof, 1993).”
The name-pronunciation effect: Why people like Mr. Smith more than Mr. Colquhoun (2012, background): “They can be diagnostic of social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and class (Kasof, 1993); they can influence impression formation on a range of attributes including success, warmth, morality, popularity, cheerfulness, and masculinity–femininity (e.g., Mehrabian, 2001; Mehrabian &…”
What is the Problem? Prejudice as an Attitude-in-Context (2008, background): “In a meta-analysis of 123 such studies, only a very slight bias against women was detected when the findings were summarized across evaluations of many types of materials (Swim, Borgida, Maruyama, & Myers, 1989), and this bias disappears when potential confounding factors (such as associations with ”