Opinion | Dr. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick: Your favorite hate read might not be bad for you. Anger can be a constructive emotion. - NBCNewsTHINK
On social media, you have abundant choices of people to compare yourself with. What makes these comparisons informative and emotionally moving is the fact that your contacts will often be similar to you in terms of hometown, age, ethnicity and so on. But in some ways your contacts are going to be doing worse — they mess up, offend people, take advantage of others and let other people down.
But getting angry can do more than just make you feel better about yourself in comparison to others. It can motivate you to take action to address injustice, or simply to be more kind and do the right thing in your own life. Anger as an emotion is a powerful signal to your organism to take action. Even if you can’t do something specific in every case, maybe you can at least express support to those who were victimized by the act that angered you.
Moreover, the actions can lead to social change — another potential reason that you might seek to anger yourself by reading flabbergasting social media posts. It’s not just about you as an individual; it could also be about your social group. We all think of ourselves in social terms — for example, as an American, a Democrat, a Christian, etc. — and we feel more connected to people with whom we share a certain identity, known as our in-group. And, on the other hand, we might distance ourselves from people who are not in our in-group and whom we perceive to be different from us.
Let’s say that you’re reading about a crime committed by an outgroup person, which you might find appalling. For instance, if you’re an employee and read about a corporate boss committing tax fraud, you would likely feel anger about the crime and maybe satisfaction about any punishment. But, if you are reading about an employee committing tax fraud, you might think that it’s unfortunate that the person got caught.
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