Speaker: REN Xiaopeng

Time：13:30-14:30 (wed), October 26, 2016

Venue: Meeting Room Level 4, South Building

Host: LI Feng

Abstract:
First name has many impacts on human behavior at different level. At individual level, first name plays an important role on identifying when we first meet someone as a typical identity. Unlike western society, there’s a cultural specific character for Chinese first name, for example, gender orientation. This paper explored the impact of different gender orientation of names on female mate preferences in the early stage of mate selection. The results of study1 and study2 showed that there were significant differences in the female participants’ selection of the three male candidates. The candidate with male-oriented name was selected more than the one with female-oriented name. The perceptions of attractiveness/vitality positively predicted the impact of different gender orientation of names on female mate preferences. In future, we try to explore the effect of gender orientation of web-name on online dating.