Everyone has ever wanted to be a superhero. Sometimes just for fun, but not always. Especially when things are getting out of hand and we would need some supernatural power to cope with them. Well, we have good news, because science is finding that just dressing up as one of Batman's most famous superheroes gives you some superpowers.
Rachel E. White from college Hamilton in New York and Emily Prager and Catherine Schaefer from the University of Minnesota, which they research and study child development, have performed interesting experiment. In the room where they put it computers and iPads, have referred some children and gave them a task.
Children who are in the room the remaining 10 minutes, they were get instructions for working on a computer, and if they get bored, they can use the iPad. There is someone every minute asked over the speaker if they were working hard enough. The children were divided into three groups, she is the first asked "are you busy?", it's the second one thought about herself in the third person, they are members of the last group put on the costumes of different superheroes.
The results showed that they were the ones who were dressed in costumes, the most productive. They were followed by a group that addressed themselves in the third person. Although the research deals with children, it is not stated whether the findings can also be applied to the world of adults, but the idea that we have a superpower can sometimes make it easier for us to overcome a problem.
More information:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
