Do You Overlook This When Improving Your Mental Fitness?
In July 1968, John B. Calhoun, an American research psychologist, once did a now splendid research on the effect of open space on your mind. The test, as expected, involved rats, not humans however his results were broadly regarded to be a appropriate. Here’s what he did.
He arrange 4 pairs of mouse into an ideal world. There were no predators, no shortage of food or drinks and of course, no scarcity of mating partner. Bottom line is these rats have everything they want – with the exception of space.
At first, each thing seems just great. The rats lived as they are suppose to be. Their population grow very quickly, multiplying about every fifty-five days. Very soon, when the number of the rats reached 620, the place he was putting them in become overcrowded. This was day 315 of the test. Surprisingly, the number of mouse began to drop since then… to the point where the last existing birth was at day 600. At the time, in between day 315 to day 600, the rats behaved erratically.
No longer do males protect their domain and females. No longer do they occupy themselves in courtship or fighting. Instead they become anti-social, and groomed themselves. Due to their absence of scars and beautiful fur, these number of males were dubbed “the beautiful ones”.
The females, on the contrary, become more and more hostile, stopped giving birth and get rid of their junior before weaning was complete. After day 600, the population began to decrease into extinction.
Sound familiar? Needless to mention, these rats are awfully depressed during this period of time. Will the insufficient space and increasing population density altering your psychology? Who knows? Maybe so, maybe not. Yet providing that you are similar me, you want to find out.
Try this out: At least once a week, walk to an open area. Be it a pasture or out of city. Most people feel relax, sort of a liberation when in open area. No mental exercises or brain training exercises can substitute this.
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