People who are angry pay more attention to rewards than threats

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 13:35 in Psychology & Sociology

Anger is a negative emotion. But, like being happy or excited, feeling angry makes people want to seek rewards, according to a new study of emotion and visual attention. The researchers found that people who are angry pay more attention to rewards than to threats -- the opposite of people feeling other negative emotions like fear.

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