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New psychology study examines how sadness and fear sharpen self-control
Sadness and fear, unlike happiness, enhance inhibitory behavior by helping individuals focus on relevant tasks and suppress irrelevant distractions, as shown in multiple experiments using tasks like anti-saccade, negative priming, and go/no-go.