Be Sad and Succeed

02/25/2010

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play IS serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Fred Rogers, children's television host, 1928–2003

"People in a bad mood have better judgment and pay more attention to details." This surprising claim is reported in Scientific American Mind (March 2010). The magazine reviewed a series of studies in which researchers induced a good or bad mood in volunteers:

"Each study found that people in a bad mood performed tasks better than those in a good mood. Grumpy people paid closer attention to details, showed less gullibility, were less prone to errors of judgment and formed higher-quality persuasive arguments than their happy counterparts. One study even supports the notion that those who show signs of either fear, anger, disgust or sadness -- the four basic negative emotions -- achieve stronger eyewitness recall while virtually eliminating the effects of misinformation."

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