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Reducing anger after an insult or provocation? Study explains how
A study released today in Scientific Reports reveals how to reduce the anger caused by an insult or provocation.
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Anger caused by an insult or provocation can be reduced if the offended party writes down their reaction to the incident on a piece of paper and destroys it, according to a study published in Scientific Reports.
The 'recipe' is the result of years of work by a team of researchers at Nagoya University (Japan) on the association between the written word and the reduction of anger.
"We expected that our method would reduce anger to some extent", however, "we were surprised that anger was almost completely eliminated", said lead researcher Nobuyu Kawai, quoted in a statement, according to the Spanish news agency EFE.
Previous work has shown how interactions with objects can help control a person's mood, for example reducing the negative consequences of anger at work and in personal life. However, many emotional control techniques are not based on research and can be difficult to remember when we are angry, EFE said.
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For the study, a group of volunteer PhD students had to write brief opinions on important social issues, such as whether smoking should be banned in public, and were told that their writing would be evaluated.
Regardless of what they had written, all participants received low marks for intelligence, interest, sympathy, logic and rationality.
In addition, all were targeted by the same insulting comment from the evaluators: "I can't believe an educated person thinks like this. I hope you learn something while you're in college."
The disgruntled volunteers then had to write about their thoughts about the comments, focusing on what triggered their emotions, and one group threw the paper away or filed it, while another destroyed it in a shredder or put it in a box.
The volunteers' level of anger was then assessed: in the case of those who threw the paper away or tore it up, the irritation practically disappeared, but the others registered only a small decrease in their level of anger.
In addition to the practical benefits, the discovery may help explain the sense of final relief of the participants in the annual Japanese 'hakidashisara' festival, which takes place on the outskirts of Nagoya and during which people break small discs that represent things that disturb them.
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