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Rachel Feltman: For American scientific‘s Science quicklyThat’s Rachel Feltman.
No matter what you believe in, I’m ready to bet that you had great anger lately. It is personally, inevitable: I can’t look down on my phone or look at TV without seeing anything that makes me angry. And that’s really tiring. But when anger is everywhere, what can we do to reach us?
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Here, to talk about the so-called thickness called anger, Tanya Lewis is a senior editor that covers health and medicine American scientific.
Tanya, thank you for joining us.
Lewis asked: Thank you for being me.
Feltman: So you wrote about this phenomenon called “angry fatigue” recently. Did you say what that is?
Lewis: Sure, so anger is a casual concept of fatigue, it is basically mentioned that it is repeatedly referred to once and again the moral transgresions and tired of them. So it’s basically what it means, you know, you see something, you’re angry, and it’s a kind of number with time.
Feltman: It is important (laugh), for many of our lives.
Lewis: Yes (laughing).
Feltman: What do researchers know in general anger?
Lewis: So angry fatigue is not well studied, but in general the anger has been studied, and people found it, really, can be useful for anger. It can really help identify and react to a problem. But it can be harmful if you live all the time and if you flood it.
Really, he has carried out a final study of William Brady at the Kecture School of Management and Organizations University at the Kecture School of Kecture. He and his colleagues found that anger can actually disinformation to spread widespread disinformation, especially on social networks. So this is, when you are too angry, people can actually withdraw from public spaces or virtual places of social media.
Feltman: Yes, and what is about the anger that helps disinformation spread?
Lewis: So I think it’s part that is more attractive. You know, it activates your emotions, so people are able to respond more. As we all know, if you ever spend time on social media and social media, we always see the most kind of inflammatory content, which is retweets or clicks on the algorithm.
Feltman: Right and in a broader way, you know, what is the time we live in, it’s so hard to avoid?
Lewis: So we live especially polarized time, and that’s not a surprise for anyone. If you have been online lately on Twitter or Facebook or Tiktok or any other social media, you probably saw people screaming something or the other. That’s really speedy, I think in recent years for our political polarization and other events in the world.
I was saying before it’s really normal and healthy. which other people can take part in the conversation.
Feltman: Yes, so social networking is a big part of it, you know, both amplify and feel for people who feel a platform. To make it wrong, what does anger to anger a person?
Lewis: So the real danger is that it becomes apathetic, and we suffer through both social media or even through traditional news sources, like cable TV, we must eventually respond less and back. Instead, instead of becoming something useful, many people are tired and smoked, and they do not want to take action in any way.
It’s really a problem because politicians can take advantage of that and can take advantage of manipulated people. In recent decades, some of the greatest social issues such as gay rights, critical race theory, are all used as a kind of wedge specimens to vote in ways to vote in ways –interest so angry about that particular theme.
Feltman: Yes, it certainly deserves to avoid. What can we do to achieve this?
Lewis: Right. That was my question too. You know, a couple of things: This is how much we can limit the media we can limit. If you know someone who is a member of the media can be strange, but I think something is too much overflowing and if you’re angry something, if you consume it’s probably a good thing.
But it doesn’t mean you have to ignore what is happening. When I spoke with William Brady, without flooding, it is a popularity of local policy or local issues, you know that in your community is actually much more influential than the local level . However, as you wish, you know that the embarrassing messages you know than confirm, you know, it is better to have people and have a conversation with them.
Feltman: Yes, find some groups of support …
Lewis: Exactly.
Feltman: Find things you can actually do when you are doing things and don’t expect (laugh) …
Lewis: Yes (laughing).
Feltman: Doomscrolling too. And did you have an angry advice to recover from smoking, once he hit?
Lewis: Gosh, it’s a good question. You know, it’s not something I wondered about Dr. Brady, but as I said, you know a bit from multimedia consumption and you know it’s just a couple of times a day to check yourself every hour Or, you know, getting alerts on your phone all the time. If someone publishes things that rage you all the time, they may not follow (laughter). And, yes, out, enter nature – you know, the usual things that reset the brain and makes you feel, you know, calmer.
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Feltman: Yes, it may be easier than it is, but good advice. Thank you for talking to us, Tanya.
Lewis: Thank you. It’s always great to be here.
Feltman: That’s the episode of today. If you want to learn more about Outreary Fatigue, you can read Tanya’s Full conversation with Dr. Brady scientific.com. We will return Friday to the new administration of President Trump on health and the impact of science.
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