Mark Wieczorek

Most people don’t appreciate an angry look, but a new University of Michigan psychology study found that some people find angry expressions so rewarding that they will readily learn ways to encourage them.

I used to think that “people crave attention in any way they can get it, and if they can’t get it in a positive way, then they go for the destructive way.” Which, I guess is a very cliche`d movie plot - guy get spurned by beautiful girl, guy turns into psycho.

This study suggests that some people may simply crave other people’s negative emotions, but I guess it could be a “self fulfilling prophecy” type thing where the high testosterone people are more prone to piss people off, which makes them crave that emotion more etc…

Read: High-testosterone people reinforced by others’ anger, new study finds

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