Your mind is telling you take precautions and control your environment, you’re doing something trying to mitigate surprises that could cause you emotional harm. He concluded that in times of high stress and anxiety, people default to repetitive behaviors (such as cleaning) because it gives them a sense of control during a chaotic period. Analyzing their cleaning behavior, Lang noticed anxious people focused on smaller areas of the object and cleaned them more meticulously. Then researchers told participants who were supposed to give a speech that they wouldn’t have to do it anymore. Lang chose public speaking as the differentiator because many people have a fear of it.Īll participants were asked to polish the metal statue with a cloth until they thought it was cleaned thoroughly. The other half were asked to study the object and think about a list of questions, but were told they wouldn’t have to do any public speaking. Half the students were informed that they would have to give a short talk about the object to an art expert. They were then split into two groups and asked to sit around a table with a small metal statue on top of it. When the students arrived, they were all fitted with a heart-rate monitor and an accelerometer on each wrist. In 2015 researcher Martin Lang had 62 students from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic as the subjects of an experiment on this subject.
According to a University of Connecticut study, while they might be lucky, I should be cautious about this behavior.
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