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Psychologists are quick to glorify weaknesses these days. A sigh is a breath signal for helplessness, it follows that mammals would instinctively look around af
by unraveller 5y ago
Psychologists are quick to glorify weaknesses these days. A sigh is a breath signal for helplessness, it follows that mammals would instinctively look around after expressing an exhaustion of known options. I'm sure other kinds of breaths (gasp) probably alter nervous function too, it wouldn't fascinate me any more than the sigh/gasp YT video thumbnails do.
Every time I see a slumped alcoholic sipping on their liquid anguish I think the habit must have started with a single sigh, itself an idea planted by a bar of unattainable nostalgia music.
- andrei_says_ 5y agoI’m sorry but this statement is so ridiculous on so many levels. Any source on a sigh being a “breath signal for helplessness”? Did you just made this sentence up, then use that sentence as a stepping stone to a scene with an imaginary alcoholic whose predicament was caused by a sigh?! For starters, how is processing or integrating emotion a weakness?
- unraveller 5y ago>sighs could signal a behavioral state change [...] Teigen (2008) also describes situations in which sighs are elicited by a quick drop in physiological arousal, during situations in which humans feel helpless and surrender. The source is my source. What really gets my goat is the Goldilocks findings; too little sighing and baby death occurs, too much and adult depression sets in. It's all too convenient a match for the present moral zeitgeist of the expert external savior. The study ignores ways anguish can be prevented (in adults) because it doesn't dare find fault with any actors in a situation, instead it looks to play the defeatist mindset off as natural & necessary from earliest life.
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