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Final Examination: Course: Advanced Reading C1
Final Examination: Course: Advanced Reading C1
Final Examination: Course: Advanced Reading C1
FINAL EXAMINATION
Course: ADVANCED READING C1
Time Allotted: 60 minutes Exam Date: August 19, 2021
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HERE’S WHAT YOUR ANGER IS TELLING YOU — AND HOW YOU CAN TALK BACK
Lauren Schenkman
The last time you got peeved, ticked or just plain enraged, did you stop and listen to what your mind was
telling you?
Ryan Martin, psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, has spent his career doing just
that. Turns out, the thoughts that we have in response to the first flare of anger are what can send us over the
edge — or help us harness the emotion for good, Martin says.
Despite the trouble that it can cause, anger is not actually bad for us. From an evolutionary perspective, it
plays an important role in our survival, Martin says: “It helps alert us to the fact that we’ve been wronged.”
When your heart starts to pound and your face gets hot, that’s anger increasing your blood flow in preparation
for a showdown. “It’s our fight or flight response, kicking in to energize us to confront injustice,” he explains.
Anger only becomes a problem when we can’t manage it — and it manages us instead. Martin saw this
growing up. “There was sort of a running joke in my family about the ‘Martin temper’,” he recalls. “Especially
the males in my family, who had a short fuse.” As a child, he cringed as his father snapped at waiters in
restaurants; later, when he volunteered at a shelter for at-risk youth in college, he saw teens who’d gotten into
trouble because they couldn’t control their anger. By the time he was doing his PhD in counseling psychology,
he knew that he wanted to help people handle this essential emotion.
Managing your anger, it turns out, is all about managing your thoughts. While a blast of rage may inform us
of a threat — even if it’s just to our reputation — it’s the thoughts we have following it which determine how
we respond. That’s why strategies like cognitive behavioral therapy, which teach people healthier thought
patterns, can be so successful.
So Martin decided to dig into the thoughts behind anger and find out: What are the angry thoughts that drive
people to act out? Could some be more damaging than others? And he set out to develop a scale for measuring
and characterizing these thoughts.