Metacogntive Solutions Anger Management Presentation for Decision Makers

1. Anger Management as a Hard Science: What it Can Do for Your Company Mike Sandifer, Metacognitive Solutions

3. A hard science perspective on anger, with real applications. Also, advanced learning perspective

4. An instant credibility with students, given the nature of the material. There is no need for discussions of students' personal lives, though their questions are welcome.

5. A fascinating journey back 200,000 years over human evolution, and the origin and reason anger exists.

6. Anger in the context of mood and other emotions, all rigorously defined with precision.

7. Comprehensive, but highly passable rigorous quizzing

9. Employees with radically enhanced social skills and “emotional intelligence.”

10. Reduced liability with respect to employees' emotional dysregulation.

11. Employees with a more sophisticated understanding of learning, and hence more trainable.

13. Completely describes anger problems and solutions

14. Earns instant credibility due to its rigorous nature

15. Is supported by decades of experimental research(links to references at the end)

16. Offers more education in fewer classes, maximizing benefits/costs

17. Offers easy maintenance of concepts

18. Does not require students' personal anecdotes or discussion, though these are welcome .

22. Most of the focus is on the latter however, with expectations developed through learning processes, which are described in easily understandable detail.

31. Fear/Anxiety as an expected loss

32. Laughter as a gain/loss independent expectancy violation

33. Sadness as a shortage of needed resources

34. Guilt as an opportunity cost

35. This puts anger in an emotionally differential context, while allowing for a broader understanding of emotional life and regulation.

39. Students will be encouraged to bring up any concerns they have about their personal behavior, though it is not required.

40. Students and their supervisors will be encouraged to periodically offer anonymous feedback, which you can access.

42. http://quantimind.blogspot.com/2010/02/mood-this-time-with-feeling-simpler.html

43. http://quantimind.blogspot.com/2010/02/definition-of-insanity-no.html

44. Full references are provided in those blog posts.

45. See also my website at www.metacognitivesolutions.com