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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 4, 712-718 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167282084018
© 1982 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Common First Names as Cues for Inferences about Personality

Von O. Leirer

Human Cognition Research

David L. Hamilton

University of California, Santa Barbara

Sandra Carpenter

University of California, Santa Barbara

Two studies examined the hypothesis that different forms of common first names-formal (such as Robert), familiar (such as Bob), and adolescent (such as Bobby)-elicit differential inferences about the personalities of the name bearer. Experiment I showed that differentiation among these three name categories was a significant basis for subjects' free sorting of common names according to similar personality types. In Experiment 2 subjects displayed different patterns of trait inferences about persons identified by formal as opposed to familiar and adolescent names. Implications of these findings are discussed.


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