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Anxiety is transmitted through the eyes

06.06.2016

Psychologists from Uppsala University and Washington University in St. Louis have found that the transmission of anxiety can occur through the eyes. Experiments were performed with infants 6 and 9 months old - they were shown a black circle of different diameters on a white background. The circle imitated the pupil, wide or narrow, and so, as it turned out, if the child was shown a wide "pupil", then his pupils dilated in response. For comparison, a black square was used, but children's pupils did not react to it.

It is known that the pupils react to an emotional state: fear, anxiety, in general, any emotional arousal makes them dilate. Of course, a circle on a white background is still not a real pupil, but it was important for the researchers to be able to accurately control the diameter of the pupil, which is why they chose such a surrogate. And, of course, it’s hardly worth talking about anxiety here either: on the one hand, as we said, the pupils dilate to any emotional arousal, on the other hand, the researchers were interested in the response itself, that is, whether the pupils of children can copy (even if not real).

However, stress can indeed be contagious. Sarah Waters and her colleagues at New York University and the University of California at San Francisco set the following experiment: women who had children of 12 and 14 months were subjected to stress - of course, with their consent.

The stressful situation was organized as usual: they were asked to make a report in front of the audience, which then had to evaluate the speaker, and the ratings could be either negative, or neutral, or positive. Then, after some time, the mothers returned to the children - and, as it turned out, plunged them into anxiety: the children's heart rate increased, other physiological indicators of stress appeared, and they began to avoid strangers. But those babies whose mothers did not go through a stressful test perceived strangers more calmly and did not become infected with any stress.

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