Breathing a sigh of relief to reboot respiration

[image error]A delightful study on the function of sighing has just been published in the journal Physiology and Behavior which suggests that our wistful deep breaths reboot our respiration and work as an unconscious stress management strategy.

Researchers, led by psychologist Elke Vlemincx, asked participants to wear monitoring devices that kept track of their breathing and chest muscles while they were asked to complete stressful pressured mental arithmetic tasks, or an attention task that required...