FEELING ANGRY MAY HELP PEOPLE ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS, STUDY FINDS

Keiani09 Apr, 2024News

The results showed that angry participants solved more puzzles than participants feeling any other emotion. Most notably, angry students completed 39% more puzzles than students feeling neutral. Participants feeling angry also demonstrated greater persistence by spending more time trying to solve the puzzles, Lench said. ?When people were angry and they persisted, they were more likely to succeed,? she said. ?But in all the other emotional states, when they persisted, they were more likely to fail. So it seems to suggest that people were persistent more effectively when they were angry. Other experiments tested whether anger could motivate students to sign a petition, help them earn high scores on a video game, or prompt them to cheat on logic and reasoning puzzles in order to win prizes.