If your partner is angry, you are likely to miss the fact that your partner might also be feeling sad.
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This is the first evidence that sadness triggers an unconscious desire to reap rewards as soon as possible—even when this urgency comes at a very real cost, in dollars and cents. But the implications go far beyond personal financial dealings. Irrational impatience leads to widespread social problems, like massive credit card debt and epidemic overeating. Indeed, people make many of the most consequential decisions of their lives in an unhappy “need it now” state-of-mind—a psychological fact that future policy interventions might take into account. 
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2011 has seen its fair share of stressful events, but the year was no more stressful than 2010, according to Gallup.
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Apparently, sadness has the effect of bringing to mind "take the money and run" rationalizations, rapidly and elaborately, which can lead to lousy judgments and real financial losses.
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A novel study by Finnish researchers reveals that listening to sad music can evoke genuine sadness in listeners – something that has been debated for decades but not yet reliably proven. The new study, published on January 30th in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, also reveals that personality plays an important role in our emotional responses to sad music. Via playalongjon
Sean Albiez's comment,
February 18, 2012 10:09 AM
Didn't Evan Eisenberg discuss this in 'The Recording Angel'? I seem to remember he suggests that the evocation of emotion in music can result in catharsis as much as reinforcement - or maybe both simultaneously ... or perhaps other more complex responses.
playalongjon's comment,
February 18, 2012 6:07 PM
Evan Eisenberg in 'The Recording Angel' may have said as much, though I thought the main focus of this work was the idea of music as a commodity ?
Sean Albiez's comment,
February 19, 2012 3:30 AM
I just dug the book out ... Chapter 10 - Canned Catharsis discusses the affective qualities of music most specifically. The book as a whole addresses commodification and related issues of consumption. First read the book about 1989 and had quite an impact on me ...
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