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2018.11.18 Consensual Hugs Seem To Reduce Stress
When a friend comes to you�after a stressful day, how do you comfort them? Do you let them rant? Do you pour them a glass of wine? Those could work. But a new study finds that a very effective technique is also simple and easy.
当一个朋友在紧张的一天来找你，你怎么安慰他们？你让他们咆哮吗？你倒他们一杯酒吗？那些可行。但是一项新的研究发现，一种非常有效的技术也很简单。
“Hugging.”
“拥抱”。
Michael Murphy is a psychology postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He wanted to know if�people who received hugs regularlycould handle stress and conflict better.
Michael Murphy是匹兹堡卡内基梅隆大学的心理学博士后。他想知道经常接受拥抱的人是否可以更好地处理压力和冲突。
“Individuals who report perceiving the availability of a network of supportive individuals tend to show better adaptation when faced with stress.”
“报告认为支持性人群网络可用性的个人在面对压力时往往表现出更好的适应性。”
But just because you have a support network does not mean that you definitely feel that support.
但仅仅因为你有一个支持网络并不意味着你肯定感觉到这种支持。
“So some researchers have argued that many of the behaviors we use to support others who are stressed might actually be counterproductive because these behaviors might unintentionally communicate to others that they're not competent to manage stress.”
“因此，一些研究人员认为，我们用来支持其他受压力者的许多行为实际上可能适得其反，因为这些行为可能会无意间与他人沟通，导致他们无法控制压力。”
Murphy and his team interviewed 404 men and women every evening for two weeks.
墨菲和他的团队每晚采访了404名男女，为期两周。
“During these interviews, the participants were asked a simple yes or no question—whether somebody had hugged them that day—and a simple yes or no question of whether they had experienced conflict or tension with somebody that day. They also were asked questions about their social interactions—how many social interactions they had that day—and responded to questions about negative and positive mood states.”
“在这些访谈中，参与者被问到一个简单的是或否的问题 - 当天是否有人拥抱过他们 - 以及他们当天是否与某人发生过冲突或紧张的简单是或否的问题。他们还被问到有关他们的社交互动的问题 - 他们当天有多少社交互动 - 并回答有关消极和积极情绪状态的问题。“
And the researchers found that individuals who experienced a conflict were not as negatively affected if they received a hug that day as were participants who experienced conflict and didn’t get a hug. Murphy and his team also saw that people who received a hug didn’t carry the negative effect to the next day, while those who did not receive a hug would. The findings are in the journal�PLOS One. [Michael L. M. Murphy, Denise Janicki-Deverts and Sheldon Cohen,�Receiving a hug is associated with the attenuation of negative mood that occurs on days with interpersonal conflict]
研究人员发现，那些经历过冲突的人如果当天收到拥抱就不会受到负面影响，因为参与者经历过冲突并且没有拥抱。墨菲和他的团队也看到那些拥抱的人没有带来负面影响到第二天，而那些没有拥抱的人会。调查结果发表在PLOS One杂志上。 [Michael L. M. Murphy，Denise Janicki-Deverts和Sheldon Cohen，接受一个拥抱与人际冲突日发生的消极情绪减弱有关]
Murphy does include this caveat: “So our findings should not be taken as evidence that people should just start hugging anyone and everyone who seems distressed. A hug from one boss at work or a stranger on the street—that could be viewed as neither consensual or positive.”
墨菲确实包含了这个警告：“因此，我们的研究结果不应被视为人们应该开始拥抱任何人和所有看似痛苦的人的证据。来自工作中的一位老板或街上的陌生人的拥抱 - 这可能被视为既没有自愿也没有积极。“
The idea is to relieve stress. Not add to it.
这个想法是为了减轻压力。不添加它。
—Lucy Huang
(The above text is a transcript of this podcast)
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By SampleAcademyWhen a friend comes to you�after a stressful day, how do you comfort them? Do you let them rant? Do you pour them a glass of wine? Those could work. But a new study finds that a very effective technique is also simple and easy.
当一个朋友在紧张的一天来找你，你怎么安慰他们？你让他们咆哮吗？你倒他们一杯酒吗？那些可行。但是一项新的研究发现，一种非常有效的技术也很简单。
“Hugging.”
“拥抱”。
Michael Murphy is a psychology postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He wanted to know if�people who received hugs regularlycould handle stress and conflict better.
Michael Murphy是匹兹堡卡内基梅隆大学的心理学博士后。他想知道经常接受拥抱的人是否可以更好地处理压力和冲突。
“Individuals who report perceiving the availability of a network of supportive individuals tend to show better adaptation when faced with stress.”
“报告认为支持性人群网络可用性的个人在面对压力时往往表现出更好的适应性。”
But just because you have a support network does not mean that you definitely feel that support.
但仅仅因为你有一个支持网络并不意味着你肯定感觉到这种支持。
“So some researchers have argued that many of the behaviors we use to support others who are stressed might actually be counterproductive because these behaviors might unintentionally communicate to others that they're not competent to manage stress.”
“因此，一些研究人员认为，我们用来支持其他受压力者的许多行为实际上可能适得其反，因为这些行为可能会无意间与他人沟通，导致他们无法控制压力。”
Murphy and his team interviewed 404 men and women every evening for two weeks.
墨菲和他的团队每晚采访了404名男女，为期两周。
“During these interviews, the participants were asked a simple yes or no question—whether somebody had hugged them that day—and a simple yes or no question of whether they had experienced conflict or tension with somebody that day. They also were asked questions about their social interactions—how many social interactions they had that day—and responded to questions about negative and positive mood states.”
“在这些访谈中，参与者被问到一个简单的是或否的问题 - 当天是否有人拥抱过他们 - 以及他们当天是否与某人发生过冲突或紧张的简单是或否的问题。他们还被问到有关他们的社交互动的问题 - 他们当天有多少社交互动 - 并回答有关消极和积极情绪状态的问题。“
And the researchers found that individuals who experienced a conflict were not as negatively affected if they received a hug that day as were participants who experienced conflict and didn’t get a hug. Murphy and his team also saw that people who received a hug didn’t carry the negative effect to the next day, while those who did not receive a hug would. The findings are in the journal�PLOS One. [Michael L. M. Murphy, Denise Janicki-Deverts and Sheldon Cohen,�Receiving a hug is associated with the attenuation of negative mood that occurs on days with interpersonal conflict]
研究人员发现，那些经历过冲突的人如果当天收到拥抱就不会受到负面影响，因为参与者经历过冲突并且没有拥抱。墨菲和他的团队也看到那些拥抱的人没有带来负面影响到第二天，而那些没有拥抱的人会。调查结果发表在PLOS One杂志上。 [Michael L. M. Murphy，Denise Janicki-Deverts和Sheldon Cohen，接受一个拥抱与人际冲突日发生的消极情绪减弱有关]
Murphy does include this caveat: “So our findings should not be taken as evidence that people should just start hugging anyone and everyone who seems distressed. A hug from one boss at work or a stranger on the street—that could be viewed as neither consensual or positive.”
墨菲确实包含了这个警告：“因此，我们的研究结果不应被视为人们应该开始拥抱任何人和所有看似痛苦的人的证据。来自工作中的一位老板或街上的陌生人的拥抱 - 这可能被视为既没有自愿也没有积极。“
The idea is to relieve stress. Not add to it.
这个想法是为了减轻压力。不添加它。
—Lucy Huang
(The above text is a transcript of this podcast)