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13th October 2019
11:31am BST
Rather, being able to match your emotions to the feelings you desire to have can increase your happiness more so than if you cannot.
"Someone who feels no anger when reading about child abuse might think they should be angrier about the plight of abused children, so want to feel more anger than they actually do in that moment."Dr Tamir said that people are "better off" being able to feel these emotions, and that some people actually want to feel more anger and hatred than they already do. The study showed that 11 percent of people wanted to feel less love and empathy, while 10 percent desired to feel less positive emotions like anger. So what do you think? Are you happy being angry? Or are you simply ragin' about it, as always?
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