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“The opposite of anger is not calmness, it's empathy.”

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“The opposite of anger is not calmness, it's empathy.”

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The opposite of anger is empathy because they have an inverse relationship with one another, empathy is the best solution for anger, and calmness holds no power over anger.

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The graph shows how the best way to deal with anger is through empathy. As seen in the survey, it shows that in a study done in the workplace empathy is seen as the best solution for anger and can be used to counter it. According to the graph, more than 50% of people in the workplace use empathy in order to resolve anger. The overwhelming amount of people that use empathy easily outweighs the amount of people that use other ways to deal with anger. This goes to show that empathy has worked time and time again to be a good solution for anger, as so many people use it in the workplace.

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The Relationship Between Empathy and Anger Is Complicated

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The Relationship Between Empathy and Anger Is Complicated by Bernard Golden

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The Relationship Between Empathy and Anger Is Complicated by Bernard Golden

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“Additionally, it found that cognitive empathy plays a vital role in lessening the hostile cognition associated with trait anger, specifically the first information processing steps.”

The quote can be used to explain how feeling empathy can reduce anger. In order to lessen anger, cognitive empathy is used. It’s an inverse relationship which defends the argument that anger and empathy are opposites.

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How Your Life Is Shaped by the Emotions You Want to Feel

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How Your Life Is Shaped by the Emotions You Want to Feel

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"With all these complications in mind, how can you ensure that your emotional goals are serving you well and that you’re able to achieve them?...""...Pause to think about your desired feelings when you make decisions, since research suggests that we enjoy activities more when they match our emotional goals...."
These excerpts show the vast complications about emotions. Emotions and feelings are really complicated, and to find resolve for them (including anger), it can't be as simple as saying "calm is the opposite of anger", because that makes emotions too simple. Instead, something like empathy, which requires vast under standing, including of one's self. Thus, empathy would be the real opposite of anger, for it forces one to understand themselves, unlike "calmness", which undermines and oversimplifies emotions.

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How Your Life Is Shaped by the Emotions You Want to Feel

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We all have emotional goals that are influenced by our culture. Understanding and adjusting them could help our health and well-being.

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“Studies have found a negative correlation between empathy and anger expressions”

This study goes into the moral aspect of personal opinions on this subject. What it means to be empathetic vs angry and how they are quite different. It may also be used as a lot of data can be provided, such as graphs, charts, studies, and explanations.

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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. ✉* E-mail: ronja.weiblenneuro.uni-luebeck.de

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The influence of anger on empathy and theory of mind

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Social cognition allows humans to understand and predict other people’s behavior by inferring or sharing their emotions, intentions and beliefs. Few studies have investigated the impact of one’s own emotional state on understanding others. Here, we…

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“In my first job, if we helped 50 immigrant families in a day, the faces of the five who didn’t qualify haunted my dreams at night.”

In this essay, Muñoz uses anger in order to feel empathy, it’s evidence to support that the opposite of anger is calmness, because in the essay she is combining her empathy and anger together, they stand strongly side by side.