好名字带来好运气

    取一个够响亮的名字，对一个人的影响是至关重要的。很多人为了能给孩子取一个好名字，可谓是煞费苦心呀！通过网络测试、或者通过所谓的“天地阴阳八卦”给孩子取名字是很多家长的常用方法。

    其实家长的努力不是白费的，据调查显示，一个好读的名字更容易达到提拔呢！怪不得家长在取名字这个方面总是显得十分慎重呀！下面我们就一起来看看名字的学问究竟是怎么样的吧。

People with simple names enjoy quicker career advancement because hard-to-pronounce names inspire negative reactions from superiors, a study has found.

Researchers found that a 'name pronunciation effect' played a major role in how people were perceived by colleagues and friends.

The team of American and Australian scientists concluded that the easier a person's name was to say, the better their success was in the workplace and the quicker they were promoted.

Their study, published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, also found a simple name improved people's ability to make new friends.

Dr Simon Laham, from Melbourne University, who led the study, said people with simple names were generally judged more positively.

“The effect is not due merely to the length of a name or how foreign-sounding or unusual it is, but rather how easy it is to pronounce," he said.

Dr Adam Alter, a co-author from New York University’s Stern School of Business, added: “People simply aren’t aware of the subtle impact that names can have on their judgments.”

In their study, mainly conducted in the field, the team investigated the way names can influence a person’s impressions and decision making.

They looked at dozens of surnames from different nationalities of about 500 university student volunteers from Anglo, Asian, and European backgrounds and a field of 500 lawyers in America.

The team found that people with more 'pronounceable' names were more likely to win political office. Meanwhile, they found that American lawyers with easier sounding names were promoted faster within their law firms.

The findings add weight to previous research which suggested that company stocks with simpler names outperformed more complex business names immediately after they appear on the market.