{"id":80190,"date":"2026-10-20T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&p=80190"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:50:48","slug":"are-you-afraid-of-your-anger","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/anger\/are-you-afraid-of-your-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Are you afraid of your anger?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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We stopped people in the street and asked them to face their own anger. One experiment, eighteen people, a whole range of reactions.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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We set up our wooden table<\/strong> in central Hannover. We want to talk to people about anger. Many of the passers-by we approach have no time; others hesitate for a moment and then walk on. Talking to strangers about anger turns out to be harder than it sounds. But some of them do sit down with us. In front of them lies an open notebook with four questions: When were you last angry? What does your anger look like? Are you afraid of your own anger? What would you like to say to someone you are angry with, or whose anger you have had to endure?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We ask them to write down an answer to whichever question speaks to them most. Some need a while to think before putting pen to paper. Others start writing straight away. They drop their slips of paper into a large jar. Then comes the second part of the experiment: drawing a slip, reading a stranger\u2019s words out loud and responding to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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