Sitting upright when working will be smarter

U.S. scientists claim that sitting upright helps improve concentration, confidence and work solving smartly.

This is a study of the authors group of San Francisco State University (USA), just published in the number of 8/2018 of the scientific journal NeuroRegulation.

Accordingly, scientists carry out experiments on basic math solving abilities of 125 university students. All are provided with simple subtraction problems: 843 minus 7 multiple times. Students sit in different poses when doing homework.

The upright posture helps you focus and solve tasks faster - (iStock artwork).

The results show that people who sit up straight and upright seem to become smarter, even if they are at the same level. They perform calculations more easily and quickly than those who sit "hunchback" on their backs.

The professor of educational medicine Erik Peper, a member of the research team, explained that the sitting posture of bending the back makes our spirit go down and the brain does not work well, limiting the ability to think quickly and clearly .

This impact has occurred since before they started math. Before the test, students were also asked to fill out a questionnaire to assess their level of anxiety. Of course, when making this questionnaire, people sit up straight or arch their backs according to their daily habits, similar to the time when they did math.

The co-author, Professor Richard Harvey, said that bending back is a defensive posture , accidentally activating old negative memories and making you become anxious, unconfident before the face.

This doesn't just affect when you do math: try sitting up straight when you're going to report an important issue, when you have to say or perform a piece in front of a crowd. You will find yourself more confident and handle situations more intelligently than sitting in a "hunched" position that is not nice.

According to Peper, the choice of sitting up straight back confidently is also the way you can optimize your focus . Co-author Lauren Mason, a bachelor who has just graduated from the University of San Francisco and is the designer of the experiment, said: "The way we interact with space not only affects how others feel about us. but also affects the way we feel ourselves . "