The expert named the reasons for the rejection of glamorous content on the Web

The rejection of glamorous video content and the trend towards scenes from rural life are associated with the physiological overload of the modern human nervous system. Clinical psychologist Sergey Volkov said this in an interview with Izvestia.

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The brain instinctively searches social media for the type of visual information it was evolutionarily created to perceive, he explained.

"We live in a parallel-perpendicular world, surrounded by bright objects, which is a huge burden for the brain and visual noise. There are no straight lines in nature and bright colors are extremely rare, but green prevails. The brain defends itself, does not let vivid details into consciousness," the specialist explained.

According to him, the picture in which the gray ocean merges with the gray sky, and there is a pile of round pebbles in the corner, is now gaining more reactions than classic photos with bright objects. It's not for nothing, he explained, that psychiatrists advise people with depression to go outdoors, walk barefoot on the grass, live in the countryside or in a holiday home outside the city. Acoustic and visual unloading is important for a person.

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