• Behavior
  • Health
  • Relationship
  • Intelligence
  • Personality

Psychology and I

  • Behavior
  • Health
  • Relationship
  • Intelligence
  • Personality

Sitting or Standing: Which Helps People Think Better?

Sitting or Standing: Which Helps People Think Better?
Share on Facebook Share
Share on TwitterTweet

A study was conducted on students by a league of researchers to check if people really think better on their feet. Results show some benefits that students with ‘standing desk’ got over their seated counterparts.

Researchers claim that students that stand rather than siting while learning invest an extra 7 minutes of attention in hour to their studies.

“Standing workstations reduce disruptive behavior problems and increase students’ attention or academic behavioral engagement by providing students with a different method for completing academic tasks (like standing) that breaks up the monotony of seated work, says Dr Mark Benden, an associate professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health.

Considerable research indicates that academic behavioral engagement is the most important contributor to student achievement.

Simply put, we think better on our feet than in our seat.”

The study was conducted in an academic year, on 282 children who were between 7 and 10-years-old. Some were allocated standing desks (originally meant for combating obesity), while others were opportune to be on regular desk.


The Best Learning Method not being used by Students or Teachers.


The students’ engagement was studied, and researchers noted that those using the standing desk were more likely to raise their hands, pay more attention, avoid talking out of turn, and participate in classroom discussion.

Source/Further reading:
Jamilia J. Blakea, Mark Bendena: The effect of stand-biased desks on academic engagement – International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 2015
by
written by Published: in Creativity

Related Articles:

  • How Beautiful but Sad Music Helps People Feel Better
  • Mind or Heart. Which is Which?
  • 3 Actions People Think of As Most Stupid
  • What Children think of People who Wear Glasses
  • The Diet that Helps fight Schizophrenia
  • Virtual Reality Helps Cure Paranoia
  • Which of the following Phobias Do you Have?
  • Does Punishment Make Better Kids?
  • What Psychologists Think of Kanye West’s Twitter Rants
  • What Half of Your Friends Think of You

GET YOUR COPY FREE

Your Practical Guide to IRON DISCIPLINE.

Free BOOK / AUDIO / VIDEO - Get your copy sent to you

Recent Posts

  • How to Spark A Love Affair With Your Life Archetype

  • 4 Psychic Abilities of Highly Empathic People

  • Hidden Intellectualism: 7 Signs You Are Smarter Than You Think

  • Empathetic Person: 8 Signs You Are Above Average

  • 5 Behavioral Traits of Great Leaders

  • 6 Signs You’re Having Relationship Anxiety (How to Stop It)

  • The SECRETS of SELF-LOVE (Free Course)

  • How Social Media Makes Us Narcissistic [Infographic]

  • “Lost” Memories can be found

  • The Sleep Pattern That Aids Faster Learning

  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise with Us
  • About

Copyright © 2014-2018 Psych Digital. All Rights Reserved.