Science proves that negativity is linked to stress. Also, that water is wet.

[Curtis2011]

This report from the University of Essex talks about how their researchers "scientifically" discovered that people who focus more on negativity than positivity end up with higher stress levels.

I find it both laughable and sad that it took eight months of "scientific" research for them to prove something as obvious as this. This is just an example of why it takes so long for the medical, and any other mainstream profession, to adapt to higher levels of awareness. Things that are obvious to the rest of us just seem to fly over their heads as they demand "proof" for even the most obvious connections.

I'm surprised to see that anyone with half a brain, let alone college professors, spent so much time and money to discover something so obvious.

[SatvikBeri]

I find it both laughable and sad that it took eight months of "scientific" research for them to prove something as obvious as this. This is just an example of why it takes so long for the medical, and any other mainstream profession, to adapt to higher levels of awareness. Things that are obvious to the rest of us just seem to fly over their heads as they demand "proof" for even the most obvious connections.

Testing is pretty darn important. A lot of assumptions that popular culture has completely believed in have been wrong-for example, the thought that the Sun revolves around the Earth. Or pretty much everything we know about the placebo effect violated popular assumptions for a loooong time.

I'm surprised to see that anyone with half a brain, let alone college professors, spent so much time and money to discover something so obvious.

Much of science is not about discovery. It's about testing hypotheses and concrete data. It's one thing to just know that negativity causes stress. It's another thing to know how much. Is negativity a bigger factor than a bad diet? Knowing these things can help, say, a psychologist treat their patient much faster.

The amazing thing about Psychology is that a lot of things that were surprising become so mainstream that 10 years later, people wonder why anyone bothered to test these things. There have actually been tests done on this . People tend to believe things are "obvious" on extremely small evidence-and they're consistently wrong.

[Angela]

That is very funny.... but I think maybe it's good to have studies like these to pave the way for more scientific studies of mind/body connection that may be more challenging for common sense to suss out.

[scotthegeek]

it turns out that people that are negative are a better judge of how things will turn out. There world view is like life sucks then you die. so they don't try very hard if at all.

The positive person world view is that life is not perfect but the world is a good place. they try more things and when things go wrong they think I was not expecting that but things will get better if I keep on trying, after all the world is a good place


Scott

[Eduard E]

Yeah, I agree that it's good to scientifically test even ideas which seem obviously true. Cause you never know: they may not be that obvious.

But sometimes, it amuses me to read conclusion like this one. I mean, maybe those research money could be better spent on discovering something we don't actually know about.

[InnerChallenge]

A lot of people probably didn't know or believe that negative thoughts increase your stresslevels. If only a few people start to monitor their thoughts and replace the negative thoughts with positive thoughts these 8 months of research were totally worth it

[diozen]

Someone needs to invent a stress-o-meter watch that monitors the level of certain stress markers of the body.

[ar81]

Well, water could also be dry, so they tested it just in case...

I just scientifically discovered that if I post here I am very likely to see a post of mine in this forum.