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Discuss “New study suggests anger is key when handling stress”

How would you feel if you were pressed for time and you had to finish a 10-page paper while studying for an exam that was worth 35 percent of your grade? Stressed? Freaked out? Well, have no fear. The solution to being stressed is getting mad!

Jennifer Lerner, an associate professor of psychology and decision science at Carnegie Mellon, led a study on how facial expressions and stress correspond to a person?s health. Lerner and her team attempted to challenge the assumptions that the biological consequences of stress are identical, and that emotions like fear and anger trigger the same psychological reactions.

In this new study, Lerner related facial expressions to stressful circumstances. People who responded to stress with fearful facial...

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