AUTHOR=Alexander Gerianne M. , John Kendall , Hammond Tracy , Lahey Joanna TITLE=Living Up to a Name: Gender Role Behavior Varies With Forename Gender Typicality JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=11 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.604848 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.604848 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Forenames serve as proxies for gender labels that activate gender stereotypes and gender socialization. Unlike rigid binary gender categories, they differ in the degree to which they are perceived as “masculine” or “feminine.” We examined the novel hypothesis that the ability of a forename to signal gender is associated with gender role behavior in women (