新发现：适度生气对身体有益

新发现：适度生气对身体有益 考研屋 www.kaoyanwu.com 提供各大机构考研、公务员、四六级辅导视频课程 Anger is good for you By Robin Lloyd Anger is good for you, as long as you keep it below a boil, according to new psychology research based on face reading. People who respond to stressful situations with short-term anger or indignation have a sense of control and optimism that lacks in those who respond with fear. “These are the most exciting data I’ve ever collected,” Carnegie Mellon psychologist Jennifer Lerner said. Lerner harassed 92 UCLA students by having experimenters ask subjects to count backward on camera by 13s starting with an odd number like 6,233, telling them it was an intelligence test and then telling them they weren’t counting fast enough and to speed it up as they went along. Wrong answers meant subjects had to start all over again. Another test involved counting backwards by sevens from 9,095. So angry... The video cameras caught subjects’ facial expressions during the tests, ranging from deer-in-the-headlights to seriously upset. The researchers identified fear, anger and disgust using a psychologist’s coding system that considers the flexing of particular sets of small muscles in the face. The researchers also recorded people’s blood pressure, pulse and secretion of a high-stress hormone called cortisol, which can be measured in the saliva and collected with a cotton swab. The people showed more fear on face when they had higher blood pressure and higher levels of the hormone. The findings were the same for men and women. Lerner previously studied Americans’ emotional response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks two months afterward and found that anger triggers feelings of certainty and control. People who reacted with anger were more optimistic about risk and more likely to favor an aggressive response to terrorism. Go ahead, get angry! So in maddening situations in which anger or indignation are justified, anger is not a bad idea, t 考研屋www.kaoyanwu.com :提供各大机构考研、公务员、四六级辅导视频课程 专业提供提供各大机构考研、公务员、四六级辅导视频课