Catarsi immaginaria

Catharsys – You are Not So Smart – David McRaney

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Punti chiave: Lo sfogo violento non ci libera dalla rabbia ma crea piuttosto dipendenza – Strategia alternativa per liberarsi dalla rabbia: imparare a contare fini a dieci – La rieducazione dei carcerati-

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THE MISCONCEPTION: Venting your anger is an effective way to reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family. THE TRUTH: Venting increases aggressive behavior over time.

DESCRIZIONE DEL BIAS

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Head to the gym and assault a punching bag. Shoot some people in a video game. Scream into a pillow.

Note:SFOGARSI

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The concept of catharsis goes back at least as far as Aristotle and Greek drama.

Note:ARISTOTELE

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was Aristotle’s counterargument to Plato, who felt poetry and drama filled people up with silliness and made them unbalanced.

Note:CONTRO PLATONE

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Balancing the humors—choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic, and sanguine—was the basis of medicine from Hippocrates up to the Old West, and the way you balanced out often meant draining something.

Note:IPPOCRATE

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Thanks to Freud, catharsis theory and psychotherapy became part of psychology…He believed your psyche was poisoned by repressed fears and desires, unresolved arguments, and unhealed wounds….

Note:FREUD

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In the 1990s, psychologist Brad Bushman at Iowa State University decided to study whether or not venting actually worked.

Note:BUSHMAN

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The students could set the volume the other person had to endure, a setting between zero and ten, with ten being 105 decibels. Can you predict what they discovered? On average, the punching bag group set the volume as high as 8.5. The time-out group set it to 2.47. The people who got angry didn’t release their anger on the punching bag—their anger was sustained by it… In subsequent studies where the subjects chose how much chilli sauce the other person had to eat, the punching bag group piled it on….

Note:PIÙ CRUDELE CHI SI SFOGA

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If you think catharsis is good, you are more likely to seek it out when you get pissed. When you vent, you stay angry and are more likely to keep doing aggressive things so you can keep venting.

Note:CONCLUSIONI GENERALI

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you get accustomed to blowing off steam, you become dependent on it. The more effective approach is to just stop.

Note:DIPENDENZA

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Bushman suggests you delay your response, relax or distract yourself with an activity totally incompatible with aggression.

CONTA FINO A DIECI PIUTTOSTO