Here at Negative Gamer we’re, well negative. We’re pessimistic, gloomy, grumpy, cynical, unenthusiastic and cantankerous, and it appears to be good measure! An Australian study has found that being grumpy is in fact good for you, enabling you to be better at making decisions and being more attentive.
Professor Joe Forgas at the University of South Wales took a group of volunteers and asked them to think about previous occasions that would make them happy or sad and then asked them to “judge the truth of urban myths and provided eyewitness accounts of events”. The researcher found that people in bad moods made better judgements and were better at communicating ideas than the happier enthusiastic gits, who were in turn more creative and co-operative.
Forgas said:
Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world.
He continued to mention that a “mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style”. He found that his “sad” volunteers had better written communication than the happy ones, which is (in part) why we swear at Wardrox for 20 minutes before he can start writing.
Many of my posts are often written in bad moods, which is usually apparent by the increased use of CAPITAL LETTERS and threatening references to Sony. While this isn’t a gaming story, it’s nice to see some scientific evidence to support that shouting at developers and complaining about Kotaku (sorry the ‘Tak) is a legitimate way to run a website.
Source: BBC
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