Getting stressed from time to time is extremely normal, especially in the globalized and fast-paced world in which we live.
However, there are cases where the stress becomes a disease, which must be properly treated. Otherwise, the individual may see their health seriously decline as time passes.
According to doctors, when we are stressed, the body thinks it is being attacked. In this way, he switches to a mode called “fight or flight”.
When this happens, a complex mixture of chemicals and hormones is released into the bloodstream, like adrenaline, cortisol and norepinephrine.
Now, the factors that can trigger stressful episodes are quite diverse, but one of them is ignored by a large part of the population. We are talking about grammatical errors, whether pronunciation or writing.
According to a recent study conducted by professionals at the University of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, there is a correlation between this factor and the variation in the heart rate of volunteers who participated in the research.
Grammatical errors really create stress
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As the results obtained by academics attest, when someone is relaxed, their heart beats maintain a variable rhythm.
However, when the individual is stressed, they begin to become more regular and measured.
Thus, the initiative revealed that there was a statistically significant decrease in this factor, in response to grammatical errors witnessed by people.
Furthermore, it was found that the more errors are heard, the more the heart rate regularizes, which is a clear sign of stress.
“The sympathetic nervous system activates the ‘fight or flight’ response during a perceived threat or danger, while the parasympathetic nervous system controls the ‘rest and digest’ or ‘feed and breed’ functions of the body. Our findings show that this system also responds to cognitive demands, and this suggests that cognitive effort reverberates through the physiological system in more ways than previously thought,” said lead researcher Dagmar Divjak.
Therefore, this data can serve as a focus point for more research to be carried out in the future on the stressits causes and consequences, as well as the relationship between the physiological and cognition.
After all, stress causes various ailments in the body and is the starting point for countless dangerous diseases.
“The study provides a new method for exploring aspects of cognition that we cannot directly observe. It is particularly valuable when working with people who are unable to verbally express their opinion due to young or old age or health problems”, they pointed out.
