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You name it--memory and delay govern first name dynamics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The adoption and abandonment of first names through time is a fascinating phenomenon that may shed light on social dynamics and the forces that determine cultural taste in general.
David A Kessler +3 more
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Definitions, 2020 2003 PhD at the Ecole d’Etudes Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Dissertation: “El Estado Pactante. Gobierno y Pueblos: la construcción del estado en Bolivia y sus fronteras” (The Pactist State.
R. Barragán
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Masked First Name Priming Increases Effort-Related Cardiovascular Reactivity [PDF]
Int J Psychophysiol, 2011 Recent research on motivational intensity has shown that explicit manipulations of self-focused attention (e.g., mirrors and video cameras) increase effort-related cardiovascular responses during active coping. An experiment examined whether masked first
P. Silvia +3 more
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First Name Popularity as Predictor of Employability
Names, 2015 For more than fifty years, research in psychology has demonstrated that our evaluation of others may be influenced by their surname or first name. In this study, we evaluated the impact of the attractiveness and frequency of names in situations of ...
Alexandre Pascual +4 more
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What’s in a Name? Sound Symbolism and Gender in First Names
PLOS ONE, 2015 Although the arbitrariness of language has been considered one of its defining features, studies have demonstrated that certain phonemes tend to be associated with certain kinds of meaning. A well-known example is the Bouba/Kiki effect, in which nonwords like bouba are associated with round shapes while nonwords like kiki are associated with sharp ...
David M Sidhu, Penny M Pexman
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Nichelle and Nancy: The Influence of Demographic Attributes and Tokenization Length on First Name Biases [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 Through the use of first name substitution experiments, prior research has demonstrated the tendency of social commonsense reasoning models to systematically exhibit social biases along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, and gender (An et al., 2023 ...
Haozhe An, Rachel Rudinger
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Who do you think I am? Immigrant’s first name and their perceived identity
Comparative Migration Studies, 2023 The current study focuses on immigrants’ perceived identity—that is, the way immigrants think the locals perceive them—and examines the link between the first name (ethnic or local) they use in everyday social encounters and their local identity and ...
Karin Amit, Pnina Dolberg
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Name Transmission Relationships in England (1838-2014)
Names, 2023 Baby names are often used to model the mechanisms of cultural evolution, as they are not given arbitrarily but on the basis of their perceived associations.
Stephen J. Bush
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Towards the History of Spanish Compound Anthroponyms with the Preposition de (Based on the 16th Century Baptismal Registers of Seville’s Parishes) [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The paper focuses on Spanish compound names with the preposition de (e.g. María de la Concepción, Juan de los Santos, Catalina de Santiago, etc.) retrieved from baptismal books in Seville prior to 1600.
José-Javier Rodríguez-Toro
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