Students give free hugs
February 19, 2016
Students showered Houston Community College’s Stafford campus with hugs on Wednesday to spread some positive psychology. The event was hosted by Psi Kappa, a psychology club at HCC.
Studies have shown that hugs reduce stress, increase the hormone oxytocin which increases various positive feelings and can improve health by lowering a person’s heart rate, blood pressure, and the harmful stress hormone cortisol.
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