Clean-up activity not only have a positive impact on physical health, but also psychological. According to a study conducted by a team from the University of Michigan, USA, hand washing can also help clean up bad feelings.
With hand washing, bathing or even just by thinking about it, "may reduce or eliminate feelings of immorality, not luck or doubt," said Spike Lee was one of the researchers was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.
"The experience of the body to eliminate the physical residue can eliminate the mental residue that is more abstract," he said.
A study published in the Journal of Current Directions in Psychological Science reveals that the psychological effects arising from the cleaning yourself. Many cleaning function that was able to eliminate the annoyance.
The researchers asked a group of respondents to assess the quality of their morality. They were asked to think about immorality in the past. Then they were invited to make a play on words and given a choice of several items to be provided free of charge.
Miraculously they much choose the word 'soap' and also 'shower' in the word games. Similarly, antiseptic swabs were more selected than the pencil, as the freebies that should be taken. The research team concluded, there are areas in the brain that are complementary between physical cleanliness with the process of refining one's psychological.
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