Washing your hands makes you optimistic... While physical cleansing after failure may eliminate negative feelings, it reduces the motivation to try harder in a new test situation to restore one’s own perception of competence. Hence, physical cleansing seems to result in being in a better position to deal with failure. I find things like this fascinating, as it shows how specific behaviors affect our mindset and thus future behavior. I see a similar phenomenon in my functional medicine patients who, often after struggling with health issues for a long time, begin to feel genuinely better, and have profound changes in their outlook on life (i.e. optimism) and that drives better lifestyle behaviors going forward. [Dallas] sciencedaily/releases/2013/10/131024141313.htm
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:42:30 +0000