{"id":45641,"date":"2013-10-26T23:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=45641"},"modified":"2013-10-26T23:32:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T19:32:30","slug":"washing-your-hands-makes-you-happier-cleaning-boosts-our-confidence-and-washes-away-feelings-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=45641","title":{"rendered":"Washing your hands makes you HAPPIER: Cleaning boosts our confidence and washes away feelings of failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/washing-boost-self-esteem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45639\" alt=\"washing boost self esteem\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/washing-boost-self-esteem.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/washing-boost-self-esteem.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/washing-boost-self-esteem-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/washing-boost-self-esteem-466x300.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It seems you really can wash away your pain, as the song lyrics go.<\/p>\n<p>A new study has found that the ritual of cleaning makes us more optimistic after failure.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kai Kaspar, from the University of Cologne, examined how physical cleansing affects us after a bad event.<\/p>\n<p>He found that people who washed their hands after failing a task were more confident they could complete it the next time.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kaspar divided 98 people into three groups. In the first part of the experiment, participants from two groups had to solve an impossible task.<\/p>\n<p>When both the groups failed, one group then washed their hands.<\/p>\n<p>Both groups were optimistic that they would better at the task next time but the \u2018clean hands\u2019 group were much more optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>But there was a twist. While people who washed their hands felt better afterwards, they were also less likely to complete the task successfully next time.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kaspar explained: &#8216;While physical cleansing after failure may eliminate negative feelings, it reduces the motivation to try harder in a new test situation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the non-hand washers performed better on the next occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The study was published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research from the University of Michigan found that handwashing is physically and emotionally cleansing.<\/p>\n<p>A team of psychologists reported that the simple act of washing hands made people feel more comfortable about the decisions they had made.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It seems you really can wash away your pain, as the song lyrics go&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[3176],"class_list":["post-45641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-washing-hands","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}