After causing over a hundred students to become angry, the professors at this Japanese university have reached a consensus. They conducted a study, published on April 9, 2024, revealing that the most effective way to calm down is to write down the reasons for one's anger before tearing up the paper and disposing of it (more or less violently, depending on your level of annoyance).
## A somewhat magical process
To provoke the young test subjects (who didn't ask for it), the various researchers had fun by lowering their grades and belittling their intellectual abilities to get them riled up. Afterwards, they instructed them to write down the reasons for their frustration. Half of them kept the paper on their desk, while the other half enjoyed turning it into shreds and throwing it away. Paper analysis. And the outcome is crystal clear, the anger of the second group almost instantly subsided, while the first group continued to brood for hours.
Destroying an object to feel better
According to experts, this discovery is attributed to a rather peculiar phenomenon: the reverse magical contagion (or magical backward contagion in French). And despite the name sounding a bit odd, the results speak for themselves.It's strange, the principle is very simple: it is a belief that the fate of an object would have a significant impact on the person to whom it belongs. A form of materialistic catharsis in short. So if you are used to writing down your little worries in a journal or on a blog, please continue. But above all, don't forget to burn your notebook or your computer afterwards, so that the method is really effective! 😄
