Date of Award
8-18-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Psychological Science, MS
First Advisor
David Saarnio
Committee Members
Karen Yanowitz; Kristen Biondolillo
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2020 D25
Abstract
For better or worse, we use other people’s names to make judgements about them. The studies described here investigated people’s perceptions and judgements of names, using ratings of the central components of social cognition (Fiske, Cuddy, & Glick, 2007): warmth and competence. The aim was to see whether or not people gave higher warmth and competence ratings to inspirational names than they gave to non-inspirational names. The results indicated that participants rated inspirational names as warmer and as more competent than non-inspirational names, although the effect was more pronounced on the warmth dimension. They rated inspirational names as more warm than competent, whereas they rated non-inspirational names very similarly on both warmth and competence. Therefore, inspirationality is a way by which we gauge the warmth and competence of others.
Rights Management
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Recommended Citation
Davis, Katherine Taylor, "Warmth And Competence Ratings of Inspirational Names" (2020). Student Theses and Dissertations. 394.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/394
