名字簡單的人更容易升職

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

一項研究表明，名字簡單的人更容易升職，因為難讀的名字會讓上級反感。

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

研究人員發現，“讀名效應”在同事和朋友對你的印象中起著重要的作用。

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.

美國和澳大利亞的科研小組得出結論，一個人的名字越容易閱讀，就越容易在工作場所取得成功和晉升。

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

他們的研究發表在《實驗社會心理學雜志》上，結果還表明，簡單的名字可以提高人們交新朋友的能力。

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

墨爾本大學的研究負責人西蒙·拉罕博士說，人們普遍對名字簡單的人有更積極的看法。

“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.

他說：“這種效果不僅是因為名字的長短，聽起來像外國人的名字，或者是多么罕見，而且很難讀出來。”

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.”

亞當·奧特補充說，紐約大學斯特恩商學院的報告合作者之一：“人們通常不會意識到名字對他們對他人判斷的微妙影響。”

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

該研究主要在現場進行，研究小組還調查了人名影響人們印象和決策的方式。

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.

他們檢查了500名大學生志愿者和500名美國律師的幾十個姓氏。大學生受訪者有不同的國籍，有的來自英國，有的來自亞洲，有的來自歐洲。

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.

研究小組發現了名字“更容易讀”人們更容易走上政治道路，名字更容易讀的美國律師在事務所升職更快。

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.

之前的一項研究表明，名字易讀的公司股票在上世后表現得比名字復雜難讀的股票好。這項研究進一步證明了這一點。

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