{"id":1129,"date":"2017-06-24T12:51:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T18:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2017-06-24T12:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T18:51:49","slug":"clean-hands-clean-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Hands, Clean Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pexels-photo-296282.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1130\" src=\"https:\/\/brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pexels-photo-296282-1024x678.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pexels-photo-296282-1024x678.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pexels-photo-296282-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pexels-photo-296282-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pexels-photo-296282-600x398.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pexels-photo-296282.jpeg 1132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We know the benefits handwashing has when it comes to protecting us from disease. But can cleaning our hands be connected with cleaning our minds?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two researchers from the University of Toronto conducted four experiments and <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/life\/2017\/06\/20\/washing-ones-hands-could-help-shift-goal-pursuit-new-study-finds.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">found a connection<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with cleaning one\u2019s hands and a shift in goal pursuit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ping Dong, one of the researchers, explains, \u201cPeople have multiple goals to pursue in their life and sometimes some of the goals may be fruitless. But people often feel it\u2019s hard to give up old goals and pick up new goals so maybe physical cleansing can help people shift their goal pursuits effectively.\u201d In other words, when people have a nagging goal they feel they just can\u2019t let go, the best way to wash their hands of the problem may just be . . . washing their hands. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the study, groups of undergraduate students were primed to bring their attention to particular goals; those groups were divided into two categories, one of which used a hand wipe. Those who used the hand wipe were found to find more importance in any goals primed following the hand cleansing process, as opposed to the goals brought up before the cleansing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mental process here illustrates that physical cleansing functions in a realm of psychological separation. Simone Schnall of Cambridge University says, \u201cIt\u2019s important in the sense that it shows that physical cleansing can serve as a \u2018psychological reset button,\u2019 as it were, that operates on a very general level.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next time you wash your hands, take note of how it changes your frame of mind, and maybe even your to-do list. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/life\/2017\/06\/20\/washing-ones-hands-could-help-shift-goal-pursuit-new-study-finds.html\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/life\/2017\/06\/20\/washing-ones-hands-could-help-shift-goal-pursuit-new-study-finds.html<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/adult-background-beach-blue-296282\/<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; We know the benefits handwashing has when it comes to protecting us from disease. But can cleaning our hands be connected with cleaning our minds? &nbsp; Two researchers from the University of Toronto conducted four experiments and found a connection with cleaning one\u2019s hands and a shift in goal pursuit. &nbsp; Ping Dong, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clean Hands, Clean Slate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[105,107,191],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clean Hands, Clean Slate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Barry\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Barry\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/437942528083e7f6e19cc3c2d5774aaa\"},\"headline\":\"Clean Hands, Clean Slate\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-06-24T18:51:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-06-24T18:51:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/\"},\"wordCount\":297,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"hand\",\"hygiene\",\"University of Toronto\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Science around the world\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/\",\"name\":\"Clean Hands, Clean Slate\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-06-24T18:51:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-06-24T18:51:49+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/clean-hands-clean-slate\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Clean Hands, Clean Slate\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Brevis\",\"description\":\"Infection Prevention &amp; 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