Use?anger?properly?is?useful

张嘉宁

摘要：Although there have been many studies and theories that classify anger as a negative emotion. But in this study， the main point of this paper is to argue that anger is a useful emotion when used properly. In this article， I will review the previous literature from four aspects to demonstrate. First， anger increases pain tolerance and people with higher level of pain tolerance tend to be less likely to suffer from mental illness. Secondly， anger can bring people together for the same thing. Thirdly， anger can be helpful in leadership， making organizations and companies more efficient. Fourthly， angry people tend to have higher emotional and interpersonal skills. Finally， anger can improve people's assessment of the urgency of an event which means that people respond to angry events in a more enthusiastic way. The conclusion of this article is that legitimate anger is a useful emotion that we can use.

關键词：emotion， anger， pain tolerance， together， leadership， emotional intelligence， urgency

1. Introduction

People's emotions such as angry and sadness are always studied by the scholars and try to investigate whether an emotion useful or not. And yet there are moods that has been classified as bad tempers. Although the majority hold the idea that bad emotions can be extremely harmful， judging bad emotions still can be a complex problem to handle. For example， ???and Dae Gun Kim（2014） suggests that the moderation in state of anger is the gentleness. Dealing anger moderately is practical wisdom. He thinks that someone who does not rage has moral defective. However， Adolphs（2010） says all the emotions are mean to help people adapt to an environment better or deal with some emerging challenges. Thus all the emotions can be helpful. This paper will provide an overview of recent experimental evidence from individuals angry. And with all these studies， we will try to prove the hypothesis that angry can be an useful emotion if we use it properly.

2. Study about angry is a bad thing

Christians believe that they should not be angry. Buddha thinks that anger is the root of evil. When anger is out of control， it can lead to poor decision making. Anger create problems with relationships（???&Dae Gun Kim， 2014）. In addition， young people who always getting angry are obviously unable to control their negative feelings about the upcoming events. Although some forms of emotional control may be beneficial in the short term， anger still may lead to negative effects on future health（Gould，& Edelstein， 2010）. People who study anger as a bad emotion in the report generally feel it is harmful to their health and has negative effects on their relationships. But it's not hard to see a common feature in all of these studies： they often explore the harmful effects of excessive anger. The truth is that anything that gets too emotional is bad. Too much happiness reduces anxiety and leads to procrastination. This article is not about excessive anger， but about anger being a useful emotion in a controlled way. Even though lots of religions don't support angry can be good， but the result of our research shows it is necessary to endure anger. More than that， if we manage anger moderately， it prompts us to make positive growth in our lives.

3. Anger can be good when we use it moderately

3.1 Anger can improve the level of pain tolerance

In Jeffries' study， it shows that anger can benefit in increasing the level of pain tolerance. They assess the role of pain tolerance in daily life by examining four specific emotional processing strategies. The experiment hypothesize two things. The first is that people's ability to reevaluate is helpful to build a high level of pain tolerance. The second is that the ability to suppress oneself， less angry and think independently are correlated with the degree of pain tolerance. The data from the final experiment is consistent with the first hypothesis： people who suppress themselves easily， less angry and often think along themselves generally have low level of pain tolerance. In fact， when people choose to suppress their emotions and avoid thinking， they are more likely to suffer from mental illness. By investigating the variance of pain tolerance and several adjustment strategies， the researchers found that this result could be helpful in reducing the number of people with contemporary mental disorders. Because the psychological symptoms could be alleviated to some extent by reasonably enhancing pain tolerance.（2016） In conclusion， this study shows suppressing our emotion and always controlling the emotion of anger will increase the risk of getting mental illness. So it is important to lose our temper at some time.

3.2 Anger can put people together

When people express their anger on social media， it's amazing how much attention they get. Such attention can bring people together quickly and facilitate many activities such as public welfare and protests. Here's a study on the role of anger on social software， blogs. Americans love blogging and they create communities while blogging.In fact， every social progress and revolution is based on the development and maintenance of grassroots communication networks because only through sharing information can individuals have the opportunity to organize into a whole and then act together. It is easy to find that blogs have the ability to share people's anger which can create a politicized product and give people a strong sense of identity in the community. From this point of view， many bloggers prefer to attack social injustice and the concern for some minor human issues（Lopez， L. 2014）. Blogging is the epitome of a lot of social media these days. All these are enough to prove that anger accounts for a large proportion in social communication and has great influence and appeal among people. In general， we can make good use of this to guide the right direction of public opinion and then get people together to do something beneficial to the society.

3.3 Anger can be useful on leadership

Leadership not only plays an important role in management but also very useful and common in daily life. When we talk about a good leader， we always say that he has gentle， humorous and other excellent character qualities. But negative emotions are no less important to leadership than positive emotions especially anger. Lindebaum and Fielden focused on that aspect and asked a lot of executives using the method of semi-structured interviews. It is surprising to find in the survey results that anger accounts for a large proportion in the negotiation and the coordination with the internal personnel of their own company. In their description， anger can help improve the efficiency of the organization and the progress of the project. Although the study was limited by a number of reasons， the general direction was indeed very significant in redefining the role of anger in transactional communication. In fact， there is a deeper connection between the rational control， the use of anger and the use of resources than we might think（2011）. In this study， anger is an important emotion used to coordinate the relationship between people in an organization. It can promote the improvement of organizational efficiency. Because the anger of the manager will have a stimulating effect on his employees， forcing them to become nervous and stressed. This manifests itself in a better overall quality of work. While a little anger can help organizations and companies， too much anger can have a negative impact.

3.4 Anger can improve emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence is often a proxy for a person's ability to communicate socially. People with higher emotional intelligence tend to communicate better and have better coordination. Studies have shown that people with more anger have higher emotional intelligence. Their findings suggest a link between emotional intelligence and people's predilections for useful emotions. Actually the useful emotion they studied here is angry. And there are several plausible theories in their research. The first is that favoring useful emotions might increase emotional intelligence. The second one is that people who has higher levels of emotional intelligence on the test are better at changing their emotions accordingly and they may better at using useful emotions. Actually， the good emotion here is anger. The main way of this research is measuring levels of emotional intelligence and varying degrees of preference. Then by comparing them to see if their hypothesis is correct. The result of the findings suggest that people who often like to show anger when communicate with others are likely to have higher emotional intelligence and have a better command of handling relationships.（Ford， B.， Tamir， M.， &Desteno， David， 2012）. Although there is no deeper insight into why people with more anger have higher emotional intelligence. But we've learned that anger is a good emotional trend especially when it comes to helping people deal with relationships. Anger may make people feel more limited so that others know how to get along with another person. In general， anger is a useful emotion.

3.5 Anger will improve the urgency level of tasks

One of the most interesting things we find in everyday life is that when you get angry and push your friends to do something， you will find that they tend to do it faster. To explore this， researchers conducted two experiments to study whether attention discrimination against angry faces in a random sample was related to the urgency of the current task that people will handle. In the first experiment， participants were given a task in which they were asked to categorize the different faces that were shown on the screen. All of which were meaningless to the participants. But before the experiment， there were two cues for subsequent facial expressions： one of anger and the other is non-expression. In this experiment， we found that angry faces were significantly more likely to produce more points meaning that if we replaced the neutral faces with angry faces， the participants will responded to these more quickly. In the second experiment， participants only have judge meaningful facial expressions and this time again dividing them into two categories： angry and expressionless. However， we found the same results： participants still responded more strongly and chose more quickly to angry faces（Wirth， B.， &Wentura， D， 2018）. The results of all these experiments suggest that in the point-detection study， people's social processing patterns were influenced by the emotion of the target person. Beisdes， angry emotions of taget person prompted people to do more positive things that are related to those angry man.

4. Conclusion

All the research on anger as a bad emotion mentioned in this article is about excessive anger. So these results are not enough to prove that appropriate anger is also a bad emotion. On the contrary， a growing body of research suggests that appropriate anger can help us in many ways. It can increase pain tolerance， help achieve leadership， gain greater emotional intelligence， improve speed of processing and strong calling ability. According to the five things I listed earlier， anger has many benefits which not only in terms of management but also in the daily communication. In general， anger is a useful emotion. However， this article mainly summarizes some aspects of the role of anger and not very broad coverage. So there may be some one-sidedness. Besides， there is no clear limit to how much anger is appropriate. I hope that future researchers dig deeper into the benefits already mentioned and find a definitive way to control anger which can be practical in real life.

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