First-Name Stereotypes and Expected Academic Achievement of Students

By S. D. Nelson. 1977

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Citations in the corpus

• Hi, my name is Martha: Using names to measure and mitigate bias in generative dialogue models (2021, background): “First names are often the first thing that we learn about each other, and are integral to our identities (Garwood, 1976; Nelson, 1977; Hayakawa and Hayakawa, 1990; Pelham et al., 2002; Maulucci and Mensah, 2015; Ainiala and Östman, 2017; Girma, 2020).”
• Sex bias in the naming of stimulus persons. (1993, background): “Research on names indicates that naming practices vary by socioeconomic status (Alford, 1988; Taylor, 1974; Willis, Willis, & Gier, 1982; Zweigenhaft, 1977) and that forename characteristics are related to academic achievement (Busse & Seraydarian, 1978b; Garwood, 1976; Nelson, 1977; Savage & Wells,”