Photos of Cute Animals to Make Work More Conscientious?

New research may be submitted to defend yourself when your boss caught you're watching funny animal videos at work. Research conducted by a number of Japanese scientists showed that viewing pictures baby animals are cute and adorable can improve performance, more focused, and more conscientious behavior.

Kitten sleeping on its back. (Picture from: http://www.livescience.com/)

Not surprisingly, the study conducted by Japanese scientists. Therefore, the country is the birthplace of a variety of cute or kawaii (Japanese for "cute") characters, from Hello Kitty to Pokemon Pikachu. Adorable creature like that can trigger positive feelings because they resemble babies with large heads and eyes.

Seeing a baby face stimuli known to trigger people to take care of him. Some research also states that funny pictures can encourage friendship.

In a team of scientists Hiroshima University study published in the journal PLoS ONE last week, researchers showed that stimulating it can be transferred to the outside of the baby care business and social situations to perform tasks that require concentration and focus.

The experiment involved 48 college students showed that those who were given a number of images that cute baby animals proved to be more complicated task than the picture shown adult animals.

Researchers suspect this has something to do with human nature that slow way of speaking when dealing with babies. A similar effect is obtained by looking at baby pictures of animals. When behavioral slowing, increasing accuracy. They suspect the animals were given a picture of a baby getting an increasing sense to treat and ultimately improve the ability to do the work to help others.

"The kawaii things not only make us happier, but also affects our behavior," said the research team led by cognitive psychologists Hiroshi Nittono. "This study shows that look funny things to improve its ability to complete the task that requires careful behavior, with a narrow focus." *** [LIVESCIENCE | TJANDRA | KORAN TEMPO 4012]

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