Seeing red sometimes ain't so bad at times.

Psychological Science recently published a case study by psychologists from Boston College & Stanford University in its April issue stating that people prefer to temper their emotions to the task at hand and it can help them succeed. According to the researchers who conducted this study, anger need not always be a bad thing. The participants in this study were given were given two choices to choose from. They could either play a confrontational computer game or one which is non-confrontational. The participants asked to what kind of activities they will participate in before playing the game they had chosen. If they chose activities that were likely to make them angry, when they played confrontational computer game then they performed really well compared to those which did not. But on the same note, these same people fared very poorly when playing non-confrontational games. I think what the study is trying to imply is that it is possible for us to effectively channelise our feelings so that it helps us emotionally pumped up to the task at hand. For example, boxers pump themselves up so that they be aggressive in the ring, etc. So seeing red can be beneficial if you are able to constructively use it and you can sometimes actually succeed in the task which you have taken up.