From an early age, our parents, and later also teachers at school, encourage us to read books as much as possible, as this is said to have positive effects on countless human functions. If you still haven't become a bookworm, but you want to, maybe these scientific reasons will convince you to do so.
Reading it takes us to worlds we wouldn't otherwise never seen, meets us with people, which never you wouldn't know, but also encourages emotions, which may never you didn't feel it.
Here are five more other scientific reasons why you should read more.
1. It reduces stress.
In 2009, scientists with University of Sussex studied, how various activities reduce stress by measuring heart and muscle tension. Reading a book or newspaper is only in reduced an individual's stress level by 68 percent in six minutes, meaning that reading had a stronger effect than walking (42 percent), a cup of tea or coffee (54 percent) and listening to music (61 percent). According to the authors, the reason for reducing stress is that that the individual completely immerses himself in the reading and in the story.
2. Extends life.
Group on Yale University she analyzed for 12 years more than 3,600 adults who read older than 50 years, they found that individuals who are Read books for 30 minutes a day, lived almost two years longer from those who only read magazines or newspapers. Participants who read more than 3.5 hours per week, are the probability that they will die, reduced by 23 %. Those who read less than 3.5 per week, but they probably reduced it by 17 %.
3. Improves language skills and knowledge of the world.
In the 1990s, Keith Stanovich and his colleagues conducted several studies, to assessed the relationship between cognitive skills, vocabulary and knowledge people who read. S tests to identify authors, which is a strong predictor of reading skill, they found that avid readers had a 50 percent larger vocabulary and more knowledge. In this case it is about snowball effect – the more you read, the more words you learn.
4. Develops empathy.
A 2013 Harvard study in which a group of volunteers read literary fiction, popular fiction, documentaries or nothing, showed that those who read literary fiction, better identified the emotions they read from facial expressions.
5. It encourages creativity.
In our real life, we have to make decisions, and often just for those Information, which are helpful to us, no make room in our brains, he says Maja Djikic, psychologist at University of Toronto. By reading and fictions make our minds open, because we can afford uncertainty. Djikic came to these conclusions after conducting a study in which it was hundred people were told to read a fictional story or a simple essay. Participants then filled out questionnaires to assess their level of cognitive closure, which manifests itself in quick conclusions and avoiding ambiguity in decision-making procedures. Emotional readers were significantly more flexible and creative than essay readers.
