In the experiments, the scientists had noticed an interesting feature in people's behavior associated with hand washing. Psychologists have found that a person needs to wash their hands, not only in accordance with the physical hygiene, but also to cleanse the mental sphere.
A group of German experts who have studied the psychological effect of such routine procedures as washing hands, drew attention during the next experiments. When the participants in the experiment were asked to solve is certainly not to solve the problems that led to the failure and causes suppression psychological state - they intuitively then wash their hands. Half of the subjects who could not cope with a difficult test, immediately after the decision to lose wanted to wash my hands.
It is noteworthy that the offer again try your luck and try to solve the task, it Vimy shine hand, participants were optimistic and showed that now they can wait for success. At the same time, another part of the test did not want to re-experience stress, and refused to repeat the test.
Scientists believe that hand washing can play the role of agents of relax way to clean not only physically, but also mentally. It is significant that experimented with hand washing scientists in Michigan came to the same conclusions as the German psychologists.
"Hand washing helps to remove those little stress experienced by people every day: debates, important decisions, tired of the routine" - expressed their views of experts from the United States.According to them, this water treatment can reduce the severity of such a complex state of mind as cognitive dissonance.
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