Dancing

Study Finds -  Dancing is a powerful way to express yourself, revealing a lot about a person’s personality. Now, researchers have also found that dancers may have better mental health than the average person with two left feet. A recent study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences found that dancers are likelier to be less neurotic than people who do not dance. Regardless of whether you dance professionally or in the comfort of your home, researchers say people who are dancers tend to be more agreeable, more open, and more extroverted. “In general, both dancers and singers show a high degree of extraversion in their personality—which may be due to the fact that their means of expression when dancing and singing is their body—and this is a very socially exposed situation, more than if you express through an instrument, for example,” says lead author Julia F. Christensen of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in a media release. “However, more in-depth investigations are needed to explore this further.”