Summary Of The Rationality Of Rage By Matthew Huston

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The article “The Rationality of Rage”, by Matthew Huston elaborates on ways that anger is useful by making you more trustworthy, by clarifying boundaries, and by motivating movements. “whether induced or not, ” your anger has to be real.” Fake anger… leads a negotiation partner to see you as less trustworthy.” So as long as your anger is genuine, the untrustworthiness will not follow you. Therefore make in you a better person. Being able to trust and be trusted helps anyone to be able to clarify boundaries. Anger in a low intensity , spoken instead pf physically expressed is considered more appropriate. While you are setting boundaries this will help because it makes the mood neutral. Once boundaries are set between groups of people

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