June 2007

Study says anger helps people think clearly

Anger seems to help people make better choices, according to a study conducted by Wesley Moons, a psychologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and his colleague, Diane Mackie.

The researchers designed three experiments to determine how anger influences thinking — whether it makes people more analytical or careful about their decisions, or whether it leads people to make faster, rasher decisions. Their findings, detailed in the June issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , suggest anger helps people focus on the cues that matter most to making a rational decision and ignore cues irrelevant to the task of decision-making.

The authors said anger is designed to motivate people to take action and that it actually helps people take the right action

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