According to a new study, there is one thing women can do before a stressful event to help keep cortisol levels down—here's what they found. 📝
there is one thing women can do before a stressful event to help keep cortisol levels down—here's what they found.has a lot of benefits, but are there differences between men and women in how touch affects stress? That's what this study sought to find out.
The researchers analyzed 76 people who were in romantic relationships in order to look at how hugging affected. They were instructed to keep a hand submerged in an ice-water bath for three minutes, all while being observed and looking into a camera . But before that, half of the participants hugged their romantic partner, and the other half did not. The idea was to see whether hugging before the stressful event would influence the participants' stress response, which researchers assessed based onThis ad is displayed using third party content and we do not control its accessibility features.Based on the findings, hugging may, indeed, be an effective way to mitigateahead of a stressful event.
Interestingly, those same effects were not seen in men, with the study authors writing,"These findings suggest that in women, short-term embraces prior to stressful social situations such as examinations or stressful interviews can reduce the cortisol response in that situation." Going forward, the researchers are interested to know if these results can be duplicated with platonic friends, as opposed to romantic partners. They also point out that it would be worthwhile to look into whether the pandemic's impact on socializing and social touch could be making us even more stressed out than we would be otherwise.
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