The advantage of people is depressing

British psychologists have shown that people with melancholy are better at remembering faces than happy people. This unexpected result helps science to better understand the effects of mood on the brain, opening new treatments for depression.

Previous studies which proved unhappy mood did not benefit a series of activities such as abstract thinking and word sequence memorization. Many researchers have argued that this is because the sad person thinks too deeply and too detailed about their surroundings. Some other scientists think it is because the sad person is too concerned about his own problem.

To discover more about the impact of melancholy psychology on the process of thinking, scientists at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK have been giving memorabilia to volunteer students.

People take the mood for volunteers by listening to appropriate music - for example, Mozart's Requiem to have a sad mood, American action movie soundtrack The A-Team to get the mood and soundtrack Western The Hunt for Red October to create a neutral mood.

In the first experiment, 88 students were shown 32 faces with normal faces, then, they were handed out questionnaires and then showed 64 faces that asked to identify which faces they had seen times. one.

Sorrowful people have the advantage of remembering faces better than those who are happy or have a normal mood.

Sad mood volunteers give the most accurate results and happy volunteers give the worst results.'It's amazing that moods are often associated with weaknesses in cognitive manipulation , ' said researcher Peter Hills, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Anglia Ruskin in the UK, on Livescience.

In a second experiment, 60 students saw a series of faces that looked happy, sad and normal. The sad students were most accurate, regardless of their facial expressions. However, volunteers with a normal and happy mood are more accurate in identifying happy faces.

On this point, Hills psychologist explained: 'People like to look at more cheerful faces, a smiling face is often more attractive than a melancholic face. It may be simple because we like to look at happy faces, so we often pay more attention. '

Overall explanation, detailed thinking may be the reason for melancholy people to recognize their faces better but perform some other poorer tasks.

Previous studies have shown that sad people miss words and objects less accurately than others. The fact that they remember the face better is probably because they pay more attention to the happy people.

Hills further emphasized the possibility that sad people are more sensitive to social issues.

'The main purpose of studying this mood is to help us better understand people's moods and thereby help find ways to prevent and treat depression', LiveScience quoted Mr. Hills.

Understanding the mechanism of sad people analyzing faces may help us understand how more depressing conditions change the way we view the world of people, thereby finding new treatments for those suffering depression.