By The Huffington Post News Editors
How you perceive emotions in others can have a real impact on how you feel yourself, according to a new study.
The new research, published in the journal Psychological Science, shows that training people to be biased to recognize happiness instead of anger in a facial expression can help to lower their own feelings of aggression and anger.
“Our results provide strong evidence that emotion processing plays a causal role in anger and the maintenance of aggressive behavior,” study researcher Marcus Munafo, a professor at the university, said in a statement. “This could potentially lead to novel behavioral treatments in the future.”
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