Weather and mood weather - the source of many metaphors for our fickle minds. Eyes brightened, clouded brow ... Prospects may be brighter, the future - hazy relationship - stormy.
Like the weather, our emotions sometimes seem unstable and uncontrollable forces of nature.
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Yes, the weather has given us an expressive language to describe our emotional atmosphere, but maybe it also defines it? Cloudy days bring with them a gloomy mood, does not it? And do not boil the blood in his veins when the mercury rises?
Clearly, from all aspects of the weather the sun is most closely associated with mood. Although this relationship is weaker than many people realize, sunlight, as has been repeatedly identified by scientists, improves mood, dulls the sadness, reduces fatigue.
But all that changes the mood, affect behavior. Happy sympathetic to each other - and on sunny days, we often help people. One American study found that in Minnesota Visitors cafe in those days, leave a generous tip.
Happy not only waiters, but also investors: a sunny day stock returns are rising.
Under the sun melt even the heart of towering beauties. French psychologist Nicolas Gegen conducted the following experiment: an attractive man approached the single women and asked them for the phone number. You are so beautiful - blandly droned seducer. - I'll call you and we'll go out together.
So, the sun was lucky in 22% of cases, and on cloudy days - 14%.
Previously, Mr. Gegen investigated the influence on the success of flirting flowers and confectionery flavors. I wonder if we wait for the stude dedicated to chocolate and puppies?
In the meantime, let's have some fun psychologists, confirming the stereotypes of Americans interested in the money, the French - romance ...
...And Australians - shopping. Joseph Forgas of Sydney has shown that the sun affects the sharpness. On the way out of the boutique shoppers were asked about ten unusual objects: a toy tractor, a pink piggy bank, etc.
All of these things they can see next to the cashier. On cloudy days were recalled seven times more objects than in the sun.
These results are consistent with the findings of many studies that say that the bad mood activates cognitive processes, that is, we become more alert. Figuratively speaking, in the gray days we begin to think of how people dressed in gray suits are strict. Uri Simonson, for example, found that in cloudy weather, the members of selection committees in universities more value on knowledge of examinees, and in the sun - a rather different nature.
Temperature affects our consciousness and behavior independently of sunlight. The further away from the ideal for most of us, 20 ° C, the greater the internal discomfort. One study found that we are less likely to help each other, if the temperature falls below or rises above this value.
In addition, the higher the temperature, the higher the aggression. In hotter years, months, days, and times of day recorded more murders and riots, often honking cars. Filed in baseball likely to drop to fail, and not just because of sweaty fingers.
The heat increases and verbal aggression. A recent study of media reports devoted to the Beijing Olympics in 2008, found that American journalists have used more words with negative connotation on hot days, even when writing about China in general, and not about the Games.
The mood is influenced not only heat and sunlight. Excessive moisture can cause fatigue and irritability. Fluctuations in atmospheric pressure brings with it frequent mood swings and headaches. Some researchers have found a link between low pressure and suicide.
If you conduct a survey on a rainy day, it turns out that people in general, is not happy.
In short, the weather really affects psychology. The reasons for this are not always obvious, but some physiological relationship can be seen with the naked eye. It's clear that on a hot day, the body spends more resources on thermoregulation, so difficult for us to restrain primitive emotions - hence irritability and aggressiveness.
Getting on the skin, sunlight helps produce vitamin D, and that contributes to raise the level of serotonin in the brain, and the mood lifted. Winter depression (seasonal affective disorder) treated with light.
Apparently, there are factors not only biological, but with the social and psychological. For example, the warmer, the more we get out of the house, actively interact with each other, making it more likely that we would start to annoy each other.
Indeed, a lot depends on our way of life, how we let the weather affect us. For example, in industrialized countries, people go outside to only 7% of the time.
Weather and Mood
Using very simple image to demonstrate a weather forecast video supported by Uniqlo
