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yeah so that's a really important point so what we study is what's called incidental angerso anger that's triggered by some unrelated event so you might have had an argument withyour spouse and then you have a meeting at work or you might have had a disagreementwith one partner and then you end up meeting with a different partner if the situation iscompletely unrelated then that anger should not influence our behavior but we find thatit actually does so what turns out to be important is that here this anger bleeds into thisunrelated situation and we become more likely to engage in deception just because wewere angry before and that anger still influences and guides our behavior Steve sheretta Why does it lead to deception and not just you know being hostile or well maybe you'realso hostile but what is it that about anger that leads to that behavior Maurice Schweitzer well what's interesting is that we found is that the anger as Jeremy was explained beforedis inhibits us we become less empathetic so we care less about other people in generaland we're now more free or liberated to pursue our self-interest so it's really a self-interested behavior and across our studies we find that when people feel anger they'rereally less concerned about other people and they're not interested in retaliation or justrandomly harming other people it's really just a diminished concern for others and thepursuit of self-interest now just gets carried away and it's no longer checked by ourempathy for others that's how we usually operate we're feeling angry we just cared lessabout others and what we find is that now anger becomes much so that the deceptionbecomes much more likely to occur Steve sheretta So being angry makes you more egocentric in a way and less sensitive? Maurice Schweitzer Absolutely!! Steve sheretta That’s okay well that’s interesting what were the key takeaways from the study Jeremy inyour view or at least that the main ones?