New findings have shown that revealing symptoms of stress and anxiousness makes individuals respond to one warmly and makes them seem likable. Jamie Whitehouse, a science fellow at Nottingham Trent University, U.K, has disclosed that visible symptoms of stress are sometimes appealing, leaving others mandated to like us and treat us warmly.
If that is the case, one need not try too hard to be a calm-and-collected face, when feeling anxiety. One can be assured in the information that humans would understand emotional originality.
Mr. Whitehouse’s curiosity about stress was rooted in the evolutionary theory that stress was typically followed by internal physiological changes that aids humans in preparing the body for adversity, i.e., a furiously beating heart, helps to send oxygen to both the brain and body, which will mean that humans can react with a lot of speed.
Primates have also been discovered to scratch their bodies when feeling signs of stress. This has been categorized as a displacement behavior. Adding to the skin scratching found in other primates, human beings have a lot of covert behaviors linked with anxiety, such as: touching the face and hair, twisting the mouth, licking lips, and biting nails. All these might showcase our sense of vulnerability and create a warmer reaction in others.
However, there is a piece of powerful evidence that the human thinking towards stress can determine its results: individuals who see being anxious as empowering, performed better at hard tasks than their counterparts who fear stress and anxiety, which as a result debilitates them.
