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Title: Do humans strategically anger the opposition?
Post by: thedoc on 19/01/2014 15:21:32

People intentionally anger others to gain a competitive advantage in certain sitations, new research has shown.

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Title: Re: Do humans strategically anger the opposition?
Post by: cheryl j on 21/01/2014 13:19:20

I believe it's called yanking someones chain.

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Post by: thedoc on 21/01/2014 15:59:26

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Title: Re: Do humans strategically anger the opposition?
Post by: CliffordK on 24/01/2014 09:54:18

There certainly are the passive aggressive people who will provide others the conduit to do stupid things.

I do wonder a bit about the military culture, at least as it is portrayed in the movies where insults are apparently common in an attempt to motivate people.  Thankfully I'm not part of that culture.