{"id":119174,"date":"2014-01-29T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T10:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=119174"},"modified":"2014-02-28T17:07:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T11:37:26","slug":"short-man-syndrome-really-does-exist-oxford-university-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/short-man-syndrome-really-does-exist-oxford-university-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Man Syndrome Really Does Exist, Oxford Uni Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feeling smaller makes people feel paranoid, mistrustful and more likely to think that people are staring or talking about them, a study by Oxford University finds, the UK Daily Telegraph<\/span><\/a> reports today.<\/p>\n

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The experience of being shorter increased reports of negative feelings, such as being incompetent, dislikeable or inferior.\u00a0It also heightened levels of mistrust, fear and paranoia. Height-reduced participants were more likely to think someone else in the virtual train carriage was deliberately staring, thinking badly about them, or trying to cause distress.<\/p>\n

\"Rajpal\"<\/a>According to the newspaper, researchers believe the findings demonstrate the psychologically detrimental effect of experiencing social situations from a position closer to the ground.<\/p>\n

Professor Daniel Freeman, who led the Medical Research Council-funded study, said: “Being tall is associated with greater career and relationship success.<\/p>\n

“Height is taken to convey authority, and we feel taller when we feel more powerful. It is little wonder then that men and women tend to over-report their height.<\/p>\n

“In this study we reduced people’s height, which led to a striking consequence: people felt inferior and this caused them to feel overly mistrustful. This all happened in a virtual reality simulation, but we know that people behave in VR as they do in real life.<\/p>\n

“It provides a key insight into paranoia, showing that people’s excessive mistrust of others directly builds upon their own negative feelings about themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe important treatment implication for severe paranoia that we can take from this study is that if we help people to feel more self-confident then they will be less mistrustful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Hugh Perry, who chairs the MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board, said: “For people whose lives are affected by paranoid thinking, this study provides useful insights on the role of height and how this can influence a person’s sense of mistrust.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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