Relationships 2.0: How To Keep Conflict From Spiraling
Hidden Brain
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The Role of Emotions in Conflicts
Julian Zelizer: It's hard in the middle of a heated argument to put on your thinking cap and remember what the smart thing is to do. "Anger and frustration play a huge role in our inability to sort of do the right thing, even when you know what the right thing is," he says. When we're upset in conflicts, many of us resort to using moral language, writes Zelizer. The impulse to put an end to the speech that you strongly disagree with I think often gets us in trouble."
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