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Show UNUSUAL GIFTIDEAS BY MAIL What Has Science Learned About Ca NGER? INSTANT FLOWER CARPET By JOHN E. GIBSON VERYBODY gets mad now and then—yet what do we really know about anger? Here is a quiz to check your ideas about anger against what science has learned in recent years. Read each statement carefully, then indicate whether you believe it true or false. Next check your ideas against scientific findings. 1. If you watch a person’s face, you can usually tell when he is getting angry. 2. Husband and wife arguments are usually won by the one who gets the maddest. 3. Neurotic people are more easily angered than those who are well balanced. 4. Women are more inclined than mento provoke domestic rows. 5. Tense people are self-con- trolled and don’t lose their tempers easily. 6. When someone hurts your feelings or causes you to feel rejected, it’s better to get mad than to feel depressed. 7. The time of day when you are most likely to blow your top is midafternoon. 8. In a domestic free-for-all, it’s the woman who is mostlikely to go from hurling verbal epithets to actually throwing things. 9. When a person yells at you in anger, the best way to cool him is simply not to answer him. ANSWERS 1, False. In one university study, students were shown photos of people taken when they were in the throes of anger. The majority of students identified the angry people as tranquil or happy! 2. False. Psychological studies at Harvard University have shown that husband and wife arguments on the subject will get you a lot further than blowing your top. 3. False. Columbia University psychologists found that angerre- action of the normal individual was much moreintense than with the neurotic. 4, True. Studies conducted by psychiatrist Dr. David Harold Fink have shown that women not only need attention but become emotionally insecure without it. 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Studies at the University of Rochester school of medicine have shown that depression tends to lower physical resistance to virtually every form of disease or.affliction and make you appreciably more susceptible. 7. False. Studies show there are three 30-minute danger periods during the day when tempers are more likely to explode than at any other time—just before meals. A person is inclined to be most irri- table when he’s hungry. 8. False. The maleof the species is more given to expressing him- self through physical violence. Women, because they are the weaker sex physically, have conditioned themselves to employ other methods to gain their ends—strategy, cunning, wile. 9. False. Not making any reply at all is likely to make him feel even angrier. The best way to cool a yeller is to answer in a lowered voice so that he has to lean forward to hear what you say. When are usually won by the one who he answers you, he will automati- does the most talking. 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