Japanese anger management is reminiscent of the Hakidashisara festival, where people are allowed to smash small discs when they are emotional.
Wrinkle seems too easy. If it really makes you angry, it’s worth putting your thoughts on paper.
And most importantly, this self-written paper must finally be destroyed. So shred, tear or burn.
Hardly many Finns have tried this way to control their emotions until the end. Now it has been tested at Nagoya University in Japan.
“Of course, we expected that putting emotions on paper would suppress the anger to some extent,” says the person who led the research Nobuyuki Kawai.
However, the researchers were amazed that the anger almost completely disappeared when the paper was destroyed. Kawai suggests that some subjects had to destroy their written thoughts in a paper shredder at the end of the experiment.
In the exam Kawai and graduate student Yuta Kanaya asked participants to write short opinions. They work at Nagoya University’s Graduate School of Informatics.
For example, they could consider whether smoking should be banned in public places.
They were then told that a doctoral student from Nagoya University would evaluate their writing. Regardless of what the participants wrote, the evaluator gave the work poor marks.
He interfered with the text’s wit, interest, friendliness, logic and reasonableness. All participants received the same offensive comment:
“I can’t believe that an educated person thinks like this. I hope this person learns something at university.”
Test subjects after the feedback, they were allowed to write their feelings on paper. They were instructed to focus on what triggered their emotions in the feedback they received.
One group was told to throw the papers they had written in the trash. Another option was to keep them in a file.
Another group was told to destroy the document in a shredder. One option was to put the feedback in a plastic box.
Subjects were asked to rate their level of anger after the insult, and also after discarding or keeping the paper. All participants reported feeling angry after receiving hurtful comments.
If the paper was thrown into the trash can or the shredder, however, the level of irritation quickly dropped to the state that the person had before with offensive feedback.
Those who kept a paper version of the insult experienced only a slight decrease in irritation.
Results published scientific journal Scientific Reports. He also told about it website Medical Express.
Cognoscenti have suggested many anger management techniques in Japan as well.
However, the techniques lack the support provided by research. After all, it has not been possible to show that the offered technologies actually work.
Mind control instructions are also sometimes difficult to remember if you are in an angry state of mind.
Researchers had previously investigated the connection between written text and anger. Interacting with physical objects can control a person’s mood.
Researchers the discovery may shed light on the Japanese cultural tradition. It is known as “hakidashisara”.
“Hakidashi” means vomiting or spitting. “Sara” refers to a dish or plate.
At Hiyoshi Shrine in Kiyosu near Nagoya, Hakidashisara is an annual festival where people smash small discs. They represent things that make people angry.
Many shredders say that they feel relieved after destroying.
in Finland an example of this could be hate rooms where you can break objects.
It seems that texts on paper and destroying them could be enough.
According to Kawai, the test result could help, for example, entrepreneurs who experience stress.
“The technique could be applied in such a way that the source of the anger is immediately written down. Then you could throw it away when you’re angry.”