{"id":7372,"date":"2010-11-05T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2013-07-18T01:41:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:41:58","slug":"anger-management-motivation-reward-psychotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/psychology-of-anger-and-motivation","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Psychology of Anger and Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in <em>Psychological Science<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/index.php\/news\/releases\/anger-makes-people-want-things-more.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">links anger to increased motivation for reward<\/a>, a feature that some might associate with more positive emotions. Interestingly, this study doesn\u2019t just link anger in general with motivation in general: instead, people actually showed the strongest desire for specific items they associated with anger. The study\u2019s authors relate this tendency to evolution: if food supply is limited, for example, those who feel food-related anger will fight harder to win that food. This backs up one of the chief understandings behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/learn-about-therapy\/issues\/anger\">anger management therapy<\/a>: that anger is a healthy part of adult life, which helps us protect ourselves and meet our needs. But like any strong emotion, there are both healthy and unhealthy ways of channeling it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Psychological Science links anger to increased motivation for reward, a feature that some might associate with more positive emotions. Interestingly, this study doesn?t just link anger in general with motivation in general: instead, people actually showed the strongest desire for specific items they associated with anger. The study?s authors relate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[231,263,25,27],"class_list":["post-7372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-therapy-news","tag-anger","tag-anger-management","tag-psychotherapy-issues","tag-psychotherapy-models"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}