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Article: Dealing with the contagious nature of anger.(FINDING BALANCE)
- Article from:
- New Hampshire Business Review
- Article date:
- April 11, 2008
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You know the old story. A guy gets yelled at by his boss. He gets in his car and "flips off" a woman in another car. Upset, she goes home and yells at her partner, who kicks the dog, who bites the son, who yells at the daughter, who breaks the TV and that makes both parents mad and so it goes ...
Recent anger and stress research indicates that how you handle your anger at work really does affect your family life, and how you handle anger at home really does affect your work performance. In a sense, you expose your family to anger from the workplace and you can infect your co-workers with anger from home. Yes, anger really is contagious.
Family ...