こんにちは
オリンピックも終盤、女子フィギュアー、「演技に納得していない、悔しい」と涙ぐんだ浅田真央ちゃん」心が震えました
自信を持てるまで練習を積み重ね出た心からの思い、悔しいと涙するのは自然なこと、スケートへの尽きない情熱と強い献身の証と思います。安藤選手や鈴木選手の演技も素晴らしかった
以前エルヴィズ・コステロのsmileの歌詞をこのブログで訳しました、とても素敵な歌詞でいいな~と思ったのですが、よく考えると本当に大切な人には「思いっきり泣き、嫌な事辛いことは吐き出し、全部聞くから」と言いたい 喜びを分かち合うのは当たり前に出来るけど、悲しみや辛さを一緒に味わってこそ・・・
今日のテーマはこんなのです。
Evidence That Little Touches Do Mean so much
Psychologists have long studied the grunts and winks of nonverbal communication, the vocal tones and facial expressions that carry emotion. A warm tone of voice, a hostile stare — both have the same meaning in Terre Haute or Timbuktu, and are among dozens of signals that form a universal human vocabulary.
But in recent years some researchers have begun to focus on a different, often more subtle kind of wordless communication: physical contact. Momentary touches, they say — whether an exuberant high five, a warm hand on the shoulder, or a creepy touch to the arm — can communicate an even wider range of emotion than gestures or expressions, and sometimes do so more quickly and accurately than words.
“It is the first language we learn,” said Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of “Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life” (Norton, 2009), and remains, he said, “our richest means of emotional expression” throughout life.
The evidence that such messages can lead to clear, almost immediate changes in how people think and behave is accumulating fast. Students who received a supportive touch on the back or arm from a teacher were nearly twice as likely to volunteer in class as those who did not, studies have found. A sympathetic touch from a doctor leaves people with the impression that the visit lasted twice as long, compared with estimates from people who were untouched. Research by Tiffany Field of the Touch Research Institute in Miami has found that a massage from a loved one can not only ease pain but also soothe depression and strengthen a relationship.
In a series of experiments led by Matthew Hertenstein, a psychologist at DePauw University in Indiana, volunteers tried to communicate a list of emotions by touching a blindfolded stranger. The participants were able to communicate eight distinct emotions, from gratitude to disgust to love, some with about 70 percent accuracy.
“We used to think that touch only served to intensify communicated emotions,” Dr. Hertenstein said. Now it turns out to be “a much more differentiated signaling system than we had imagined.”
To see whether a rich vocabulary of supportive touch is in fact related to performance, scientists at Berkeley recently analyzed interactions in one of the most physically expressive arenas on earth: professional basketball. Michael W. Kraus led a research team that coded every bump, hug and high five in a single game played by each team in the National Basketball Association early last season.
今回も心理系です、やっぱりこのテーマは面白いですね。
音読をまずは繰り返し、それから区切りをいれてみてください
では良い一日を