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通过文章的阅读学习英语六级词汇(十八)

　　Since holding anger inside may lead to heart trouble and since acting it out by having temper tantrums is highly antisocial, Faker says researchers now advocate maturely discussing anger either with the person who makes you angry or with a friend -- as the most constructive method of dealing with explosive feelings.

　　Since the early Type A studies, researchers have been attempting to fine-tune the ways in which they can identify a person as Type A or Type B, not an easy task since people often deny or are actually unaware of some facets of their personalities and hence cannot be asked point-blank if they are angry or impatient by nature.

　　Dimsdale used both pencil-and-paper questionnaires and a semistructured interview technique to identify Type A personalities among heart patients. In the interview, he explained, you ask questions slowly and sometimes even in a stammer and then see how rapidly the person will finish the sentence for you. People who rush to answer are usually highly impatient and impatience has long been considered a major component of Type A behavior.

　　Yet, no matter whether he used the self-report questionnaires or the more subtle interview technique, people identified as Type As did not fare worse than the others.