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The mere act of folding your arms increases perseverance and activates an unconscious desire to succeed, new research shows.
University students randomly assigned to sit with their arms crossed spent more time on an impossible-to-solve anagram, or word scramble, in one experiment, and came up with more correct solutions to solvable anagrams in another than those told to sit with their hands on their thighs.
The study is the first to show that arm crossing affects people's thinking without them being consciously aware of it.
Read more about it here.
University students randomly assigned to sit with their arms crossed spent more time on an impossible-to-solve anagram, or word scramble, in one experiment, and came up with more correct solutions to solvable anagrams in another than those told to sit with their hands on their thighs.
The study is the first to show that arm crossing affects people's thinking without them being consciously aware of it.
Read more about it here.
