Recently, why is the world mourning a person who has never met?Scientists reveal the reasons behind

Text ｜ Li Muzi

Queen Elizabeth II died, and the news caused huge emotional fluctuations in the UK and the world.

Her family and friends are sad, but how do others feel? Is it a kind of sadness to lose a person who has never met?

Michael Cholbi at the University of Edinburgh and ethicist Michael Cholbi said most sad studies are concentrated in losing their parents, close friends or spouses.

The mourner in front of Buckingham Palace. Picture source: wiktor szymanowicz

The unilateral relationship between a person and a well -known public figure, a celebrity or a royal family is called the vice social relationship.

"Of course, I think the relationship between deputy social relationships can cause sadness. But I don't understand why this sadness only makes sense only in the context of mutual benefit." Cholbi said.

Some researchers attribute their association to the loss of possibilities. "The sad experience is a destruction of the entire world experience. When it happens, your assumptions will be broken." Said the philosopher Louise Richardson of York University.

She quoted a theory called the world, which believes that a person has a strong basic assumptions to the world. "What we feel sad is those losses that destroy the false world, which can explain the sadness of people's death of the Queen of England," she said.

Cholbi said that it is reasonable to be sad for the departure of public figures, because by accepting the same perceived value, or appreciating the position held by that person, they will pin their identity to these public to some extent. The character.

"This is a person who has lost a role in his own values. Therefore, this feeling is not only lost one person, but also some aspect of your own loss to some extent."

A research in 2012 shows that a process called "introverted" can help people cope with celebrities' death.

Andy Langford, the clinical director of London's funeral charity CRUSE, explained that "introverted" refers to the quality of the people we think with us, even if we are far away from them.

He said that we will eventually accept these qualities, which helps us cope with the pain of funeral.

Langford believes that the sadness of public figures is also sad, "those feelings are real, and the sadness is real."

But for some people with far -reaching relationships, such as the Queen of England, Langford expects sadness to disappear faster than those who lose closer.

He said that the connection we formed with someone depends on 3 variables: time, distance and intimacy. "These three aspects will show us the degree of mourning. The reason why they are important is because there are three neurons in our brains."

Katherine Shear, the director of the Sadness Center, the University of New York, said that long -term sad disorder (a state of continued strong sadness may last for several months or years) "extremely impossible" affects those who mourn the Queen of Britain.

Despite these opinions, testing the theory of sadness and finding quantitative answers are still challenging.

"This is not like a sad gland in the brain. Under certain specific conditions, you can see how active it is." Shear added, "Sadness may be a simple word, but it is actually very complicated: it is not it is not A kind of emotions, but a set of emotions. "

"China Science Journal" (2022-09-16 The 2nd Edition of the International Title "Are You Sorrow for the People who have not met"))

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