According to science, a bad mood may not be as bad as it seems

Are you someone who gets angry easily? Who is always in a bad mood? Although we all know that this type of emotion is not good for your health, due to the amount of harmful hormones it produces, there can still be benefits in this case.

The bad mood we are dealing with here is not related to permanent feelings, caused by some hormonal or psychological imbalance, such as depression. But yes, the feeling of a bad mood, which arises from a stressful situation, an unpleasant day or a sleepless night.

What happens is that researchers have found that fleeting feelings of bad mood can help people focus on details that would otherwise go unnoticed. Essentially, this means that being in a bad mood allows a person to give up a little self-confidence in exchange for more attention and analytical skills.

How does feeling angry help you focus better?

We will explain it to you according to a survey published in the magazine boundaries in communicationresearchers at the University of Arizona in the United States, conducted tests on people with mood swings and relaxed people.

The study suggests that people in bad moods pay more attention to detail, thus improving textual comprehension, for example.

On the other hand, relaxed people tend to act confidently and sometimes naively, that is, they don’t notice important details. This research complements another published study Journal of Experimental Social Psychologywith the authors stating that bad humor sometimes causes suspicion.

That is, relaxed people are more gullible and tend not to pay attention to detail, while a moody person will pay attention to potential lies and/or disagreements.

Of course, none of the studies encourage individuals to stay in a bad mood. After all, as it was said at the beginning, this condition can generate an excess of hormones harmful to the human body.

However, both surveys show how there are evils that come for good. So focus your bad feeling on productive tasks as you will notice differences in your performance.