• May 3, 2024

Just as some women lie about their age , some men tend to exaggerate with their height increasing one centimeter, this is because the social beliefs they point out that being tall is better than being short and this puts pressure on, above all, male gender and is that science confirms thatheight It is related to job success, among other things.

Psychologists of the Oxford University they affirm that the height determines the school success , labor Y Romantic of people, not just of men. This was a suspicion that kept busy Daniel Freeman , coordinator of the research and who recently could verify through a study published in the magazine Psychology today.

The findings suggest that people from short stature they have a personality that leans towards "inferiority and the threat of the social environment ", in contrast to those with a taller stature of the average they enjoy security Y self esteem .

Their conclusions establish the disadvantages that the subject does not exceed one and a half meters, since people of short stature usually have a greater risk of suffering heart disease , besides that they perceive lower income and see themselves as people without the capacity to leadership.

Short people and psychological disorders

The investigation explains that the consequences social Y psychological carried by people of smaller stature, obey a social bias unconscious that they experience from the childhood, what can it generate psychological disorders as chronic anxiety or paranoia.

To determine this, several volunteers underwent a test of virtual reality in which they had to face hostile situations in a simulation of the London underground. In the test they faced virtual people or avatars whose stature grew or decreased without them realizing that this was happening.

As a result, participants reported an increase in feelings of inferiority, weakness and incompetence when they faced the avatars Taller. And this explains why they were also more likely to experiment paranoid thoughts : For example, that someone inside the car was being hostile or trying to bother them.

Regardless of our stature, we can strengthen our self esteem and a sense of security in front of the world, all people are trained to achieve their objectives . Although height is related to job success, a Healthy life it is, with certainty, a shortcut to success.