美国纽约州心理研究所儿童心理学家丹尼尔·派思和他的同事对716个9~18岁的孩子做了9年的跟踪研究,发现容易紧张焦虑的女孩会比快乐阳光的女孩子矮5.08厘米。这些具有紧张焦虑情绪的女孩并不是生来就身材矮小,因此心理学家猜测,诸如紧张、焦虑等负面情绪可能抑制了某种专门掌管身体生长发育的激素正常分泌。 Daniel Psychby, a psychologist at the New York State Psychological Institute, and colleagues conducted a 9-year follow-up study of 716 children aged 9 to 18 years and found that girls who were nervous and anxious would be 5.08 shorter than happy sunshine girls cm. These tense and anxious girls are not born short, so psychologists suspect that negative emotions such as tension and anxiety may inhibit the normal secretion of a hormone that specializes in body growth and development.