Gender markers provide syntactic structure and a categorization schema to language. Brand name gender is a function of both formal, structural aspects of the brand name and semantic properties of the brand's product class. In the formal gender system of Spanish, consistent formal gender marking...

People often associate human characteristics with brands such that the notion of brand personality has become part of marketing's vernacular. This research documents how implicit theories regarding one's own personality traits (whether they are fixed or malleable) affect inferences about the...