Psychological experiments help you eliminate bad habits

Each of us has hundreds and thousands of different habits: both good and bad. However, there is an undeniable fact: eliminating bad habits is difficult and even many people struggle with them and cannot give up.

>>>Stress does not make people change their habits

The latest study is published in the journal Psychological Science of two German experts, Gesine Dreisbach and Karl-Heinz Bauml of the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, which has opened a new path, a solution to both difficulties. as above.

How to give up this bad habit?

Accordingly, every habit, though good or bad, is closely related to the situation of implementing that habit .

For example, you smoke when you feel stressed. Over time, smoking habits are formed and whenever you feel stressed, you will again smoke.

Experts call it the way you learn a habit . And the simplest way to eliminate that habit is to forget how you learned it.

The boundary between good habits and bad habits is very fragile

Specifically, the two researchers conducted a series of 3 different experiments. In the first experiment, the participants had the same bad habit, that is, thinking and tossing the key into the sky.

This habit not only helps people become more lucid but vice versa, making our thinking ability relatively slow. Scientists have asked all volunteers to give up that habit, but only half of them can do it.

They are the ones who are shown that they have broken things when they throw their keys into the sky and they need to 'forget' how to learn this habit.

Just delete your memories related to bad habits, and that's it

In the second and third experiments, the volunteers were asked to perform two challenges related to language and mathematics. Surprisingly, volunteers who learn how to forget the key when thinking get better results than those who can't quit that habit.

Sharing more about this study, Genise and Karl-Heinz said, the extent of the impact of 'forgetting' on renouncing bad habits has not been clearly defined. They will need more time to learn more about this issue.