Good moods prevent colds?
posted by David Pescovitz at 10:38:07 AM
A new scientific study suggests that people who have a positive outlook are
less likely to catch colds. Psychologist Sheldon Cohen and his colleagues at
Carnegie Mellon University exposed more than 300 healthy adults to a cold
virus and interviewed them about their emotional state. Those with
"generally positive outlooks... reported fewer cold symptoms than were
detected in medical exams." From Science News:
"We need to take more seriously the possibility that a positive
emotional style is a major player in disease risk," Cohen says.
Those who displayed generally positive outlooks, including feelings of
liveliness, cheerfulness, and being at ease, were least likely to develop
cold symptoms. Unlike the negatively inclined participants, they reported
fewer cold symptoms than were detected in medical exams.
The new study, which appears in the November/December Psychosomatic
Medicine, replicates those results and rules out the possibility that
psychological traits related to a positive emotional style, rather than the
emotions themselves, guard against cold symptoms. Those traits include high
self-esteem, extroversion, optimism, and a feeling of mastery over one's
life.
Link
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061216/fob2.asp
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