Researchers took 49 college students and asked them to write for two minutes, for two days in a row, on something they found to be emotionally significant.
The participants showed immediate improvement in mood.
They performed better on standardized measures of physiological well being, too.
But the first sentence is easier to digest, since you don't find yourself asking questions.
Like, "There are standardized measures of physiological well being?"
The researchers comment, "This study shows that health benefits follow from just 2 minutes of written
expression. Certainly these results do not mean that spending more time expressing emotion is bad but they do show that the minimum dosage required may be lower than previously thought."
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