Right-handers should get into the habit of using a computer mouse, stirring a cup of coffee or open a door with his left hand - and lefties should do the opposite.
'Training' you to use the "wrong" hand appears to act as the practice of other types of self-control, and be polite.
Just two weeks after exercise to reduce the tendency to act on impulse.
Dr. Thomas Denson, University of New South Wales, said the practice of self-control is no different than getting better at golf or playing the piano.
In the studies that showed that people who try to use your nondominant hand for two weeks, keep a lid on his aggression better. So if you're right, they are told to use their left hand "to almost anything that is safe," he said.
Dr. Denson, whose findings are published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, said it's just self control that keeps us from hitting the bridges of the tail or complicity to murder their colleagues.
He said: 'With the mouse, stirring his coffee, open the doors. This requires people to practice self-control, as their common tendency is to use your dominant hand.
In one experiment, participants were slightly insulted by another student and were given the option to retaliate with a burst of white noise, a combination of all the different sound frequencies also known as static.
Those who had practiced self-control responded less aggressively.
Dr. Denson and colleagues said that criminologists and sociologists have long believed people commit violent crimes, when an opportunity arises and are low in self-control. He said: "It's an impulsive type of thing.
During the last ten years or so psychologists have joined this research, with new forms of manipulation of self-control in the experiments, and found self-control and aggression in reality are closely linked.
Studies have also found that after people have had to control for a while, they behave more aggressively.
Dr. Denson, said: "I think for me the most interesting results have emerged from this is that if you give people the opportunity to aggressively improve their self-control, which are less aggressive.
Not that aggressive people do not want to control themselves - they just are not very good at it. In fact, if they get aggressive persons on a brain scan and monitor their brain activity as insults, the parties involved in the control of the car are actually more active than in the less aggressive.
Therefore, it may be possible to teach people struggling with issues of anger or violence to control themselves more easily.
For those not inclined to violence, but can also be useful to practice self-control, trying to improve your posture, for example. In the short term this may reduce self-control and make it more difficult to control impulses.
, Dr. Denson added: "But if the practice in the long term, their capacity for self-control becomes stronger over time. It's like practicing anything, really - it's hard to top" .
But over time, can make that annoying colleague easier to deal with
During the last ten years or so psychologists have joined this research, with new forms of manipulation of self-control in the experiments, and found self-control and aggression in reality are closely linked.
Studies have also found that after people have had to control for a while, they behave more aggressively.
Dr. Denson, said: "I think for me the most interesting results have emerged from this is that if you give people the opportunity to aggressively improve their self-control, which are less aggressive.
Not that aggressive people do not want to control themselves - they just are not very good at it. In fact, if they get aggressive persons on a brain scan and monitor their brain activity as insults, the parties involved in the control of the car are actually more active than in the less aggressive.
Therefore, it may be possible to teach people struggling with issues of anger or violence to control themselves more easily.
For those not inclined to violence, but can also be useful to practice self-control, trying to improve your posture, for example. In the short term this may reduce self-control and make it more difficult to control impulses.
, Dr. Denson added: "But if the practice in the long term, their capacity for self-control becomes stronger over time. It's like practicing anything, really - it's hard to top" .
But over time, can make that annoying colleague easier to deal with
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