Effects of a Positive Mental Attitude on the Student Populace -Jack Maraziti
Many kids, including teens, often second guess themselves either in school or on the sports field. But what good comes out of that? Recent studies prove that when people have a positive mental attitude toward a topic, it will increase the effectiveness of the brain and probability of success. In 2018, Stanford School of Medicine conducted a study with 240 students ages seven to ten. 47 students were analyzed using an MRI while doing basic math. The results were outstanding! Students who had a positive attitude toward the subject of Math were found to have a more active hippocampus. The hippocampus is a part of the brain responsible for memory and learning. Lang Chen, leading author of the study stated, "...the unique contribution of positive attitude to math achievement is as large as the contribution from IQ." This reveals that when students are have a positive attitude toward a subject in school, they are more likely to retain informat...