The level at which anger could result in greater goal attainment was compared to the states of sadness, amusement, desire, and physiological arousal.
A positive mental attitude isn’t the answer to everything. There are some cases in which anger might be the best thing to help you achieve your goals, according to a new study.
Six different experiments were conducted with undergraduate students at Texas A&M University as participants. The researchers said anger was chosen as the target emotion for their experiment because it is “frequently discussed as an emotion that should be regulated or controlled and is hedonically aversive.”
In one of the experiments, the goal was to solve a series of puzzles about the different states of emotion. The research found participants in the anger condition solved more than those who were in a neutral state.
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