[HN Gopher] The Integrative Role of the Sigh
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The Integrative Role of the Sigh
Author : arc-in-space
Score : 56 points
Date : 2022-02-03 08:46 UTC (3 days ago)
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| TheJoeMan wrote:
| Just yesterday at work we were discussing how some fancier
| ventilators are adding 1/min sighs:
| https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/96/4/788/39284...
| arc-in-space wrote:
| This came up in another thread
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30181560), it's pretty
| interesting. I have never heard of the sigh as a physiological
| function before.
| yodon wrote:
| I know we're just supposed to upvote but I wanted to explicitly
| thank you for finding and posting this article (I too was
| captivated by the mention of the sigh as a psychological
| function in that previous HN post, but I didn't succeed at
| finding a summary like this one).
| jimkleiber wrote:
| I'm curious as to what psychological impacts we receive when
| a norm is to only express gratitude through a very anonymous
| and vague upvote. I think what the article explores is how a
| simple, seemingly meaningless, factor may influence us more
| than we think and I wonder how design decisions of HN do as
| well.
|
| So, I'll also break it and say thank you for inspiring me to
| wonder about this.
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| I think the intentions behind the norm are for _generic_
| expressions of gratitude to be restricted to upvotes. When
| there are so many people communicating with each other in a
| shared environment, you kind of have to have a rule like
| that.
|
| If this website had private responses, that'd solve that
| issue, but it'd also make abusive behaviour easier. Then
| you'd need to have a report system that allowed people to
| provide context, and before you know it, you need a _large_
| moderation team rather than the very small one that Hacker
| News currently gets away with.
|
| I wonder whether there's a way to have it both ways.
| jimkleiber wrote:
| I appreciate you pointing out the nuances in how it might
| play out, not just for the user, but also for the
| moderation of it behind the scenes. The pains and
| scalability of moderation is something I've thought about
| a lot when I've been imagining myself as the
| admin/moderator, yet, oddly enough, I easily forget about
| it when I just think about myself as the user.
|
| For example, as a user on HN, I've often felt so lost in
| having conversations longer than a day, because I only
| notice upticks in my karma (is that what it's called
| here?) number and if someone replied to something not on
| the first page of my threads, then it may as well
| disappear. So I've wondered why HN doesn't have
| notifications, yet maybe there's a hidden moderation pain
| that I'm not imagining behind the scenes.
| sufficer wrote:
| Are you high?
| jimkleiber wrote:
| No, I work in human communication.
| [deleted]
| adolph wrote:
| I don't see it mentioned here yet, but the Huberman Lab podcast
| "Dr. Jack Feldman: Breathing For Mental & Physical Health &
| Performance" covers the function of sighs and other interesting
| topics. "They discuss physiological sighs, peptides expressed by
| specific neurons controlling breathing, and magnesium compounds
| that can improve cognitive ability and how they work."
|
| https://hubermanlab.com/dr-jack-feldman-breathing-for-mental...
| unraveller wrote:
| Psychologists are quick to glorify weaknesses these days. A sigh
| is a breath signal for helplessness, it follows that mammals
| would instinctively look around after expressing an exhaustion of
| known options. I'm sure other kinds of breaths (gasp) probably
| alter nervous function too, it wouldn't fascinate me any more
| than the sigh/gasp YT video thumbnails do.
|
| Every time I see a slumped alcoholic sipping on their liquid
| anguish I think the habit must have started with a single sigh,
| itself an idea planted by a bar of unattainable nostalgia music.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| andrei_says_ wrote:
| I'm sorry but this statement is so ridiculous on so many
| levels.
|
| Any source on a sigh being a "breath signal for helplessness"?
|
| Did you just made this sentence up, then use that sentence as a
| stepping stone to a scene with an imaginary alcoholic whose
| predicament was caused by a sigh?!
|
| For starters, how is processing or integrating emotion a
| weakness?
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