We look like our names
The manifestation of name stereotypes in facial appearance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6202417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yonat Zwebner (0000-0002-6683-9058, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Anne-Laure Sellier (HEC Paris), Nir Rosenfeld (0000-0002-4334-2508, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Jacob Goldenberg, Ruth Mayo (0000-0002-4677-1869, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 527-554 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/pspa0000076 |
| PMID | 28240942 |
| OpenAlex | W2594250733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 40 |
whereby both a social perceiver and a computer are able to accurately match a person's name to his or her face. In 8 studies we demonstrate the existence of this effect, as participants examining an unfamiliar face accurately select the person's true name from a list of several names, significantly above chance level. We replicate the effect in 2 countries and find that it extends beyond the limits of socioeconomic cues. We also find the effect using a computer-based paradigm and 94,000 faces. In our exploration of the underlying mechanism, we show that existing name stereotypes produce the effect, as its occurrence is culture-dependent. A self-fulfilling prophecy seems to be at work, as initial evidence shows that facial appearance regions that are controlled by the individual (e.g., hairstyle) are sufficient to produce the effect, and socially using one's given name is necessary to generate the effect. Together, these studies suggest that facial appearance represents social expectations of how a person with a specific name should look. In this way a social tag may influence one's facial appearance. (PsycINFO Database Record
Cognitive psychology · Face (sociological concept) · Face perception · Facial expression · Human physical appearance · Impression formation · Linguistics · Matching (statistics) · Perception · PsycINFO · Social perception · Communication · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Face Recognition and Perception · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Psychology · Social Psychology
Statistical learning research
Where Sex Meets Gender
Long-term sociolinguistics trends and phonological patterns of American names
Fear-Free Cross-Cultural Communication
Seeing the darkness
Names and individual differences
Understanding the Rise of Unique Names
Cognitive complexity of social images revealed by Jewish Israeli adolescents relating to drawings of Jews and Arabs
Sex-biased sound symbolism in French first names
Do unique names fit people for creative work? Implications for job recruitment, name change, and product evaluation
Personality in faces
Perception of Hidden Confidence in Neutral Expressions
Draw Me Your Name
Conflicting signals
Social Attributions from Faces
Inferences of Competence from Faces Predict Election Outcomes
First Impressions
Parts and Wholes in Face Recognition
Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition
A study in phonetic symbolism.
Predicting political elections from rapid and unreflective face judgments
Evaluating Faces on Trustworthiness
The Teddy-Bear Effect
Understanding evaluation of faces on social dimensions
The functional basis of face evaluation
Accurate Social Perception at Zero Acquaintance
The Face of Success
Prejudice
Not the Same by Any Other Name
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
Friend or foe
Stereotype Susceptibility
A unified theory of implicit attitudes, stereotypes, self-esteem, and self-concept
Expectancy confirmation processes arising in the social interaction sequence
Very first impressions
The effects of stereotype activation on behavior
Connotative Meanings of Names and Nicknames
Impressions Created by Given Names
On the Significance of Names
The name-pronunciation effect
Nonconscious Behavioral Confirmation Processes
Changing the personality of a face
Facing faces
Self-stereotyping in the context of multiple social identities
Treating stimuli as a random factor in social psychology
The voiced pronunciation of initial phonemes predicts the gender of names
Accuracy in social perception
Racial categorization of faces
Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure
Understanding face recognition
Children's First Names
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |