Names are an important identity feature for individuals, not only in social cognition but also
in social interaction. As a special category of names, repeated two-syllable names have attracted attention
due to their ability to elicit infant iconographic effects. In this study, two experiments were conducted to
explore the attentional bias effect of repeated two-syllable names and its effect on implicit interpersonal
attitudes (competence/warmth dimension). Experiment one manipulated subject gender and stimulus
congruence with the repeated two-syllable names, with reaction time as the dependent variable, and
required 72 subjects to complete a dot-detection task. Experiment 2 manipulated subject gender, name
gender preference and name compatibility with attitude ratings, and asked 62 subjects to complete an
implicit association test in both the warmth perception and ability perception dimensions, using D-value
and reaction time as dependent variables. The results of Experiment 1 found a significant main effect of
the location of the stimulus appearance and the consistency of the superimposed name location, but no
significant difference between the genders; the results of Experiment 2 found a significant one-sample
t-test for D value and a significant main effect for name and attitude compatibility in the warmth and
competence dimensions, but the rest were not significant. Conclusions: The repeated two-syllable names
elicited an attentional bias, and there was no difference in the attentional bias elicited by males and
females. People implicitly rated the holders of the repeated two-syllable names as warm and competent,
which was not influenced by the gender of the subjects or the gender orientation of the names.