Short People Got … Lots of Reasons to Legitimately Feel Paranoid

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York, Pa.: Tallest Women In Basketball. The indoor cage sport has discovered in York, the feminine copy of the famous stretch Meehan, tallest man in basketball circles in the person of Miss "Babe" Roby, center of the Thompson Business College Quintet, an uncommon stunt is to have her teammates stand beneath her outstretched arms. Babe stands 6 feet 4 inches in height, and not all bone, but plenty of muscles.
Being taller tends to be socially desirable. But why?
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Diane Cole
for National Geographic
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 2014
Your physical height can affect your emotional state of mind, according to a new study.
We already know that language bestows positive value on people of tall stature: We look up to them rather than down. And various studies have found correlations between being taller and earning more.
Now virtual reality is adding to the understanding of the short state of mind. A study conducted at Oxford University and published in December 2013 used avatars to let participants go through the virtual experience of riding a subway at their normal height and then at that height reduced by ten inches.
For the study, 60 women—none with a history of mental illness, but all of whom had recently reported mistrustful thoughts—donned headsets and viewed monitors as they participated in two 3-D virtual-reality trips on the London subway system. They were able to move and interact with other virtual passengers, exchanging glances or looking away from others, for instance.
Read the full article at National Geographic 
(http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140216-short-tall-height-perception-psychology-bias-science/)

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