“Tempers, if you want to be healthy!”. We constantly hear about strengthening the immune system, and that is our immune system to slightly weaken, as the terrible disease will not keep you waiting. To challenge the existence of immunity, no one is going, but a team of researchers from McGill University (Canada) recently found that the immune system is not one. Two. And the second can prevent us to build relationships with other people.
Despite the seemingly lack of communication between human communication and the immunity is not so clear. Approximately 10 years ago a group of psychologists have suggested that in addition to the immune system, which is responsible for the internal defense of the body against pathogenic microorganisms, viruses, and other things, there are also external. It is called the behavioral immune system (the behavioral immune system). And its essence is the following: it is activated at the moment when the interaction with people and objects around the person has a risk of infection. For example, we are in a group where everyone is coughing and sneezing. Or we go to the house, which is full of sick people. In the end, just when you walk into an unfamiliar room with an unpleasant odor.
The influence of the “second immune system” on relations would remain under the unconfirmed theory, if not for the research of canadian scientists. They are in the course of the experiments found that activating the human immune system occurs at the moment when we see in another person a threat to our health. In this case, we unconsciously formed a biased attitude. In tests, involving 2 groups of men aged 18 to 35 years. 66 people met and talked on the Internet, and 121 people in real life speed Dating. It turned out that the second group of people in 80% of cases are automatically hampered the incentive to continue communication when “adding” the health signals, like smells, small scratches and other things, even in that case, if the communication is not had any problems. As stated by author doctor Natsumi Sawada,
“We really didn’t expect that this will happen in real situations, when people usually are motivated for the formation of new social ties. In addition, how people relate to each other, there are other important factors that affect the development of relations. For example, as it turned out, is the fear of getting sick”.
You would think that all of the above is only, so to speak, with “visual disgust”, but it’s not. Because after the “add a painful factor” level of immune cells in the blood of subjects increased significantly.
Scientists: humans have a second immune system. And it affects personal life
Vladimir Kuznetsov