Lying to restrain the wrath

Lying down when insulting can hurt your pride, but that action helps you curb your anger better.

Psychologists from Texas A&M University recruit dozens of volunteers to test their ability to control anger. They asked volunteers to write their own thoughts on an issue they always object to such as abortion or public smoking.

The team put electrodes on the heads of all volunteers to monitor brain activity and said that a group of people in the next room would evaluate their writing. Then one of the people in the next room read the comment about the posts before the microphone. This person scoffed at the volunteers, thinking that their thoughts were muddy, narrow-minded, repetitive and unreasonable.

Lying posture helps you control anger better when offended.(Photo: images.com)

The screen of the gauges shows that neurological activity in the brain of those who hear humiliation in standing and sitting postures increases very strongly. The parameters indicate that most volunteers feel angry and want to attack people who insult them.

However, the brain activity of those who lie only increases slightly. Their brains did not give any signal to attack people in the next room.

The expert group concluded that body posture can affect how the emotions are handled in the brain .

" People who hear insults in standing posture are more agitated. Therefore, the risk of clashing is greater, " commented Eddie Harmon-Jones, a member of the research team.

Peter Bandettini, an expert at the American Institute of Neurological Health, said: " I have never previously thought that the posture of the body can affect the ability to control anger, but this test has provided evidence. about that ".