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The idea we have of our own power, both in terms of our personal relationships as social, influences our perception of the physical characteristics of real objects, say scientists. This directly affects diseases and illnesses male suffer, like erectile dysfunction.

Most of us have already felt the weight of the world on our shoulders on a sad morning. But now, two psychologists and an erectile dysfunction expert claim to have obtained the first tangible proof that our mindset affects literally on the weight we attach to real objects.

More precisely, the feeling of power - or lack thereof - alters our perception of the physical world and can help treat erectile dysfuntion.

Psychologists Eun Hee Lee, Simone Schnall of the University of Cambridge (https://www.cam.ac.uk/), UK, and ED Protocol's Jason Long (http://myedprotocol.com) recruited, "in exchange for a chocolate bar," volunteers to perform three types of tasks, writing in the journal Journal of Experimental Psychology. The first test aimed to determine whether there is indeed a correlation between the feeling of power and perception of the physical weight of things. For this, they asked 145 people to self-assess their level of social power through agreement or disagreement with statements like "I can make myself heard by others." And then they asked them to estimate the weight of a series of boxes full of books.

Conclusion: the lower was the sense of social power of the person, the greater the estimated weight of the boxes. The correlation seemed to exist.

In the second test, which involved 41 participants, the scientists wanted to confirm that perceptual change detected in the first test was only due to the feeling of power or lack of it and not to other factors. Therefore, "manipulated" sense that, by varying the posture when people were adopting sat in a chair. One of the postures suggested power (an arm on the chair arm, the other a desk, legs drawn to the ankle of one of them on the opposite thigh); another submission (hands under her thighs, shoulders hunched, legs together).

Powerful or submissive?
All this was done without the volunteers suspected what was the final goal of the study. Here, allegedly the test intended to test the ergonomics of the chair - which justifies be asked, then each of the two positions, to raise a series of boxes and evaluate its weight.

Before sitting down in the chair, all participants overestimated the weight of boxes; but after the power position, each right ones provided estimates. On the contrary, after the posture "submissive", each continued to imagine that the boxes were heavier than they actually were. It was the power factor that altered the perception of weight.

In the third and final test, he asked the 68 volunteers to remember a personal situation where if they had powerful or powerless sense - and then, to assess the weight of yet another series of boxes. Here, the idea was to determine "if power makes subjects appear more light or is the lack of power that makes them look heavier," the scientists write. The alleged pretext this time was the study of the influence of physical exercise on the autobiographical memory of people. Result: those who evoked an episode of power were able to estimate the weight more accurately than those who remembered a powerless state - that continued to assign too much weight to the boxes.

At the end of the second and third tests, the authors found that participants were not really any idea what the real subject of the research behind the tasks - something that to happen, would have skewed their answers.

Based on these results, the researchers conclude not only the sensation of power - or lack thereof - literally alters the perception of the weight of the objects as well (based on the third test), which is the psychological and social impotence which makes the objects heavier and not the power decreases the perceived weight.

"This work suggests that the fact of feeling powerless - either due to personality traits in dealing with others, either due to a disadvantaged social role - leads people to perceive objects differently when confronted with challenges that their resources do not allow them to cope, "write yet.

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