What Age Is in a Name?

Social scientists often describe fictional people in survey stimuli using first names. However, which name a researcher chooses may elicit nonrandom impressions, which could confound results. Although past research has examined how names signal race and class, very little has examined whether names...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sasha Shen Johfre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2020-07-01
Series:Sociological Science
Subjects:
age
Online Access:https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v7-15-367/