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If you want to achieve your goals, get angry. New research indicates that anger can help people overcome challenges or obstacles that might get in the way of their ambitions. A study published this week in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that participants who completed a variety of challenging tasks in a state of anger performed better than participants who felt other emotions such as sadness, desire or amusement.
” 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. Across all challenging situations, participants in the angry state were more likely to attain the desired goal. Is anger always a good thing? Not all forms of anger are useful for achieving goals, according to psychology experts.
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