Hand washing of optimism

Clean hands against stressa



I'm sure many of you are faced with the need to perform time consuming and hard work, not panic and were close to despair. In order to overcome this state of some use meditation and other stress while others poured prefer to treat "like with like", and with his head dipped into the solution.

Employees of the University of Osnabrück (Germany) headed by Kai Caspar recently conducted an interesting experiment showing that make people more optimistic, self-confident and free them from worries can usually hand washing. The experimental results published in the journal «Social Psychological and Personality Science».

The researchers offered volunteers face a tremendous challenge, and some of them are in the process of working on it wash their hands, while others have done without it. It turned out that the members of the group took some time during hygiene, washing hands after tended to assess their capabilities and force more optimistic than participants with unwashed hands.

True, the session some of hygiene weakened motivation: "chistyuli" made a second attempt with much less zeal than "Dirt." This curious phenomenon suggests that hand washing as it "breaks the" cycle of activity and allows you to gather the courage, but at the same time introduces the brain into thinking signaling the "completion" of the work, after which the person is relaxed.

Kai Kaspar and his colleagues are not the first to have found a link between washing hands and mood: the so-called science is known for Macbeth effect (named after the famous Shakespearean character), the essence of which is that, washing your hands, man 'resets' guilt. In addition, regular hygiene to help the individual to feel the purity of not only the body but also the spirit, thereby improving morality and strengthening moral.

via factroom.ru