{"id":1533,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/touching-wood-can-have-a-calming-effect\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","slug":"touching-wood-can-have-a-calming-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/touching-wood-can-have-a-calming-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching wood can have a calming effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-13 15:44:18<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Touching wood can alleviate stress.<BR><br \/>\nScientists say that placing your hands on a wooden surface can have the same calming effect as petting an animal.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Baroness Kathy Willis, a boffin at the University of Oxford, said: &#8220;If you stroke wood it is a bit like stroking a dog.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It can lower your blood pressure, compared to stroking marble or steel, even if they&#8217;re all at the same temperature.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;If you ever go to a home store and you look at people looking at the kitchens, they always stroke the bench. We subconsciously do it to see how it feels.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Willis explained that much of the relaxing effect comes from the scent that is given off even decades after a tree has been cut down.<BR><br \/>\nShe told the Instant Genius podcast: &#8220;They&#8217;ve shown that wood panelling in offices, school rooms and homes give out this smell.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;That scent carries on for many years after the wood is up there.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;People who worked on a test in a concrete room versus a test in a pine room had really quite a significant difference in scores.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;They suggested it could be to do with the scent.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-13 15:44:18 Touching wood can alleviate stress. Scientists say that placing your hands on a wooden surface can have the same calming effect as petting an animal. Professor Baroness Kathy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}