影響一生的名字

Parents beware! Baby names have a lasting effect on our behavior throughout our lives - and influence everything from where we live to what career paths we choose

家長們要小心了!寶貝的名字會對孩子一生的行為有著長遠的影響，從居住地到職業(yè)道路的選擇都與之息息相關。

Parents often agonize over what names they give their children; they may be trying to spare their child from cruel schoolyard rhymes or attempting to connect their being to a meaningful symbol or place.

父母們總會糾結給他們的孩子取什么名字。 他們或許會盡力避免他們的孩子因為名字而在學校被亂取綽號，盡量讓名字具有美好的意義。

But a new video is bringing to light key research which indicates that the names we are given at birth can actually have even more long-term affects on our lives than you may think - from our choice of profession to where we end up in the world. In fact, this research even suggests that we may not have much real control over our own life decisions at all.

但是一個最新視頻展示了一項研究提到在出生時被賦予的姓名真的會對我們的生活有著讓人想象不到的長期影響——姓名會影響我們選擇從事什么職業(yè)，在什么地方居住等，實際上，這項研究甚至表示其實我們對自己的生活并沒有多少實際的掌控力。

According to studies compiled for the latest edition of PBS Digital Studios' Brain Craft series, the act of writing our names over and over again throughout our lives can result in something called implicit egotism – a kind of obsession with the letters and sounds involved in our own names .

根據最新一期 "大腦藝術"系列所進行的研究，我們一生當中，一遍一遍書寫自己的姓名會造成一種內隱自大——種對涉及自己姓名的相關字母和聲音的癡迷。

'The more we are merely exposed to something, like those letters, the more we like them,' explains BrainCraft host Vanessa Hill in the video.

“我們接觸一種事物例如這些字越多，我們就越會喜歡它們。”大腦藝術 主持人 瓦倫薩•希爾解釋在視頻中解釋說。

This means that we may be more attracted to places, careers and even people that have a link to the letters used in our names.The study BrainCraft cites in its video - authored by researchers Polman, Pollmann and Poehlman, of course - calls this idea the name-letter effect.

這表明我們會被那些涉及我們自己姓名所用單詞的地點、職業(yè)甚至是人吸引。大腦藝術在視頻中所提到的研究-由研究員 伯爾曼、波爾曼和鉑爾曼完成的， 當然他們稱這個研究的想法也是姓名字母效應。