Are you someone who gets angry easily? Who is always in a bad mood? While we all know that this type of feeling is not good for your health due to the amount of harmful hormones it produces, it’s still possible that this condition has benefits.
The bad mood we are dealing with here has nothing to do with persistent feelings caused by a hormonal or psychological disorder such as depression. But yes, that feeling of low spirits that comes from a stressful situation, a nasty day, or a sleepless night.
What’s happening is that researchers have found that the temporary feeling of being in a bad mood can help people focus on details that would otherwise go unnoticed. That is, a bad mood basically allows the person to give up a little selfconfidence in exchange for more attention and analytical skills.
How does it help you focus better when you’re grumpy?
We explain it to you According to a survey published in the journal Frontiers in Communication, researchers at the University of Arizona in the United States conducted tests on moody and relaxed people.
The study indicates that people who are in a bad mood pay more attention to details and thereby improve comprehension, for example.
Relaxed people, on the other hand, tend to behave confidently and sometimes naively, which means they don’t notice important details. This research complements another study published by the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, in which the authors claim that bad moods sometimes lead to skepticism.
That is, relaxed people are naïve and less likely to pay attention to details, while someone who is moody is alert to possible lies and/or controversy.
Of course, none of the studies encourage staying in a bad mood. After all, as we said at the beginning, this condition can produce an increase in harmful hormones for the human body.
However, both surveys show how there are evils that come to good. Therefore, focus your bad feeling on productive tasks as you will notice differences in your performance.