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Art helps us escape our anxieties & changes how we think, reveals study

- BY MARTIN BAGOT Health Editor

LOOKING at art eases daily worries and helps people think about the bigger picture, psychologists say.

Those engaging with the beauty of objects, rather than just seeing the art, were more likely to think “beyond the here and now”, the experts found.

The Cambridge University study split 187 participants into two groups to look at ceramics at the university's modern art gallery, Kettle’s Yard.