Source丨Science Refutation Platform (ID: Science_Facts)
Author丨Huang Jia, Associate Researcher of the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Audited丨Fan Chunlei, Associate Researcher of the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences According to the current research, no scientific basis has been found for the connection between children's sleeping posture and their personality. In addition, the personality characteristics of underage children are extremely plastic as they grow older, and will not be fixed because of the sleeping position they are used to. There is a saying on
that “the child’s daily sleeping posture can be used to determine what kind of character he will be in the future, because the child is completely subconscious during sleep, so the behavior of the expression is also the most heart-to-heart!” The statement said , Sleeping position includes big font, curled up, straight sleeping position and side lying type: "big font" children are more optimistic, enthusiastic, flexible and adaptable; "curled up" is like a child in Bao's belly The appearance at times shows that there is a lack of inner security; children in the "flat sleeping position" grow up to behave and will be a little stubborn; children in the "side lying" type are more easy-going and can easily integrate into the group, but they are too easy to believe Others are easily deceived.
So, in life, can we really judge a child's personality based on his sleeping position?
A smiling baby girl is lying on a bed and sleeping on blue sheets Reasoning: Relevant research data shows that children between the ages of 3-5 will change 4.4 sleeping positions every hour on average every night. So, if a 3-5 year old child sleeps for about 10 hours a night, does this child switch between 4.4X10=44 multiple personalities in one night? For a while, this is an "optimistic and generous" child, and then becomes "insecure" again? Obviously, judging a child's personality based on his sleeping position is unreliable.
(Data source: Koninck et al., "Sleep", 1992, Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages 143-149)
, which is similar to personality quizzes, is generally the reading content of leisure time appearing in entertainment magazines. In essence, it is just a kind of entertainment. Everyone reads it, smiles and then passes. But when someone uses "sleeping posture" and "personality" as keywords and searches in all Chinese journals, there are actually 107 Chinese articles whose titles contain these two keywords, and many of them read: " Look at personality from sleeping posture", "sleeping posture reveals personality", "your sleeping posture may reveal your character"... This is a bit of a wrongdoing, and it is also necessary to know whether "sleeping posture" and "character" The relationship gives a positive solution.
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all rumors are "Catch the wind and catch the shadow". So what exactly is the "shadow" captured by the "wind"? Most of the similar articles did not specify the source of the information. Only one article "Sleeping Posture Reveals Personality Secrets" mentioned-"Chris Izikovsky, director of the British Sleep Assessment and Consulting Service, investigated about 1,000 After the person, the analysis summarized 6 common sleeping positions, each of which is related to the different personality of the person."
(Original source: "Invention and Innovation" 2008, Issue 3, page 51)
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Where is the final paper published by Chris Izikowski’s survey data? The author is very interested in sleep research and would like to read it. It’s a pity that I searched and searched, but I couldn’t find the original text of this investigation. I only found a piece of news reported by the BBC on September 16, 2003, with the title: Sleep position gives personality clue. With just a short news report, we cannot know what kind of data is based on the relationship between sleeping posture and personality traits mentioned in this report, and what kind of people use these data in What kind of scale is collected... For a news report, we cannot assess how scientific it is. Moreover, news reports are written by reporters, not by scientists themselves.It is very likely that there is still a misunderstanding when the writer recounts this matter.
(Original source: https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3112170.stmreturn)
Then let’s take a look at the official published scientific research papers on how to say the relationship between sleeping posture and personality Relationship.
had an article published in a North American academic journal in which 332 college students filled out four questionnaires. The first is the sleeping posture questionnaire, and the other three are the personality, creativity, and innovative style scales. They used the sleeping posture questionnaire to divide 332 people into five groups (four different sleeping posture groups, as well as a group that didn’t know what posture they used to sleep). They found that the different sleeping posture groups had differences in personality characteristics, creativity and There is almost no difference in innovation style. In other words, in the crowd of ordinary college students, there is no relationship between sleeping posture and personality.
(Original source: North American Journal of Psychology, 2012, Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 609-622)
Therefore, it is completely unreliable to see children’s personality from their sleeping posture, and there is no information about children’s sleeping. The scientific basis for the connection between posture and their personality. I believe that most people will not believe it if there is no basis. Moreover, the personality characteristics of underage children are extremely plastic as they grow older, and will not be fixed because of the sleeping position they are used to.
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