Have you ever felt a reduction in physical pain when you think about your loved ones??..Of course it makes us "feel" better emotionally(isnt it?)..but this is the first time im hearing that it can reduce physical pain.
This new study found out that it actually does.They tested this theory on 25 women who had boyfriends.It can be read here .These women experienced less heat when they saw a picture of their boyfriend than when they saw the picture of a stranger. And "In another set of conditions, each woman held the hand of her boyfriend, the hand of a male stranger and a squeeze ball. The study found that when women were holding their boyfriends' hands, they reported less physical pain than when they were holding a stranger's hand or a ball while receiving the same amount of heat stimulation."
I like such kind of studies :-)
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