If you are reading this on a smartphone, please monitor your sighing activity. As you read, and as you sigh, consider the details presented in the following study: “Reading on a Smartphone Affects Sigh Generation, Brain Activity, and Comprehension,” Motoyasu Honma, Yuri Masaoka, Natsuko Iizuka, Sayaka Wada, Sawa Kamimura, Akira Yoshikawa, Rika Moriya, Shotaro Kamijo, […]
“Teigen has seen deep traces in both the history of psychology and especially in fields such as intuition and social cognition, ie how we experience, perceive and think in social situations. Yet it is the ironic Ig Nobel Prize that has made him most famous, at least for those who are not in the profession.” […]
Psychologists, having been decorated (see below) for pursuing insights about why people sigh, now see neurobiologists tailing after them. A press release earlier this year from UCLA announces: “UCLA and Stanford researchers pinpoint origin of sighing reflex in the brain“. The press release also contains a body of text, which contains this explanation: “Sighing appears to be […]
Research on sighing continues, perhaps spurred on by the awarding of the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize in psychology to Karl Halvor Teigen (of the University of Oslo), for trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh. Professor Teigen’s prize-winning study (“Is a Sigh ‘Just a Sigh’? Sighs as Emotional Signals and Responses to a Difficult Task,” […]
Vetenskaps Nyheter interviews Karl Halvor Teigen of the University of Oslo, soon after his return home to Norway after receiving the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize in psychology at the ceremony at Harvard. Teigen was honored for trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh. Here’s their report: His research is detailed in the study “Is a Sigh […]