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【題組】14.
(A) A study from the 2000s found that, even after controlling for family background and general dissatisfaction with life, people who didn’t like their own name tended to have poorer psychological adjustment. 
(B) This sense fuels a distinctiveness motive that drives them to find an unusual career path that matches their identity. 
(C) This is consistent with the notion that having a negative-sounding or unpopular name sets a person up for social rejection and an increased risk for developing a disagreeable personality. 
(D) American research conducted in the wake of the 911 terror attacks found that the exact same resumes were less likely to attract interviews when attributed to a person with an Arabic-sounding name as compared with a white-sounding name. 
(E) It is observed that people with names considered unfashionable, such as Kevin, were more likely to be rejected, as compared with people with more trendy names, such as Alexander.

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They found that...low agreeability.他們發現,即使在控制了背景人口因素的影響之後,名字不那麼受歡迎或有更多負面含義的人也更有可能參與犯罪。而親和力較低的人,也會被視為容易有犯罪傾向的代表。這剛好與某個概念一致,就是指那些聽起來較負面或不受歡迎的名字,容易使一個人受到社會排斥,也有較高的風險發展出另任人厭惡的個性。