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What's in a name? William Shakespeare asked in his love tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
Success, luck and attractiveness, a survey by an English psychology professor suggests more than 400 years later.
People called James or Elizabeth are perceived as likely to be the most successful, while Ryan and Sophie are seen as the most attractive, according to a poll by phychologist Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire.
Jack and Lucy are seen as the luckiest, according to a poll based on asking more than 6,000 people for their perceptions of different names.
At the other end of the scale, Lisa and Brian were seen as the least successful, Helen and John as the least lucky, and Ann and George as the most unattractive.
"Past research has shown that such perceptions can become self-fulfilling prophecies, with teachers giving higher marks to children with attractive names and employers being more likely to promote those who sound successful," said the authors of the poll.
"Attractive female names tended to be soft-sounding and end with the 'ee' sound, whereas the sexiest male names are short and much harder sounding," Wiseman said.
What about his own name? He said he was pleased that Richard rated high among given names, while with the surname Wiseman "I think I was destined to be an academic."
(Agencies)
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威廉·莎士比亞在他的愛(ài)情悲劇《羅密歐與茱麗葉》中問(wèn)道：一個(gè)名字里究竟蘊(yùn)藏著什么秘密？
四百多年后，一名英國(guó)心理學(xué)教授開(kāi)展的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查為他找到了答案：名字與成功、運(yùn)氣和吸引力有關(guān)。
赫特?？ご髮W(xué)的心理學(xué)家理查德?懷斯曼開(kāi)展的一項(xiàng)民調(diào)顯示，名叫“詹姆斯”和“伊麗莎白”的人被認(rèn)為最易獲得成功，“賴恩”和“索菲婭”最具吸引力。
該民調(diào)共對(duì)六千多人對(duì)不同名字的看法進(jìn)行了訪問(wèn)。調(diào)查結(jié)果顯示，“杰克”和“露西”被認(rèn)為是最幸運(yùn)的名字。
此外，調(diào)查對(duì)象認(rèn)為，名為“麗莎”和“布萊恩”的人最不易獲得成功，“海倫”和“約翰”運(yùn)氣最差，“安”和“喬治”最缺乏吸引力。
調(diào)查人員稱：“此前有研究顯示，人們對(duì)名字的這種直覺(jué)看法有一定的預(yù)示力量。老師們傾向于給名字好聽(tīng)的學(xué)生打高分；公司老板可能更愿意提拔名字聽(tīng)起來(lái)有‘成功’意味的員工?！?/font>
懷斯曼說(shuō)：“有吸引力的女名發(fā)音往往較輕柔，多以‘ee’音結(jié)尾；而性感的男性名字的音節(jié)往往較短、發(fā)音硬朗?！?/font>
那么懷斯曼自己的名字呢？他說(shuō)他很高興“理查德”排在前面，至于他的姓“懷斯曼”，他說(shuō)“我想我這輩子注定了要搞學(xué)術(shù)研究?！?/font>
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