影响一生的名字

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

家长们要小心了!宝贝的名字会对孩子一生的行为有着长远的影响，从居住地到职业道路的选择都与之息息相关。

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.

父母们总会纠结给他们的孩子取什么名字。 他们或许会尽力避免他们的孩子因为名字而在学校被乱取绰号，尽量让名字具有美好的意义。

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.

但是一个最新视频展示了一项研究提到在出生时被赋予的姓名真的会对我们的生活有着让人想象不到的长期影响——姓名会影响我们选择从事什么职业，在什么地方居住等，实际上，这项研究甚至表示其实我们对自己的生活并没有多少实际的掌控力。

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 .

根据最新一期 "大脑艺术"系列所进行的研究，我们一生当中，一遍一遍书写自己的姓名会造成一种内隐自大——种对涉及自己姓名的相关字母和声音的痴迷。

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

“我们接触一种事物例如这些字越多，我们就越会喜欢它们。”大脑艺术 主持人 瓦伦萨•希尔解释在视频中解释说。

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.

这表明我们会被那些涉及我们自己姓名所用单词的地点、职业甚至是人吸引。大脑艺术在视频中所提到的研究-由研究员 伯尔曼、波尔曼和铂尔曼完成的， 当然他们称这个研究的想法也是姓名字母效应。