The best bet for aggression research, a team of researchers reported last year , is the Voodoo Doll Task. As in the blood sugar study, people are given a doll that represents a specific person: either someone they know or someone who has provoked them in some way. Sometimes the doll might be virtual, and whether real or on a computer screen, participants are told they can stab the doll with as many real or virtual pins as they want. Before the Voodoo Doll Task, researchers had cooked up various other aggressive acts for people to launch at one another in a laboratory setting.
Among these was the Hot Sauce Paradigm. The more hot sauce they hose down the food with, the more aggressive they are deemed to feel. The test worked pretty well. But today the Hot Sauce Paradigm, like so many paradigms, has somewhat fallen by the wayside. Ah, but voodoo dolls. In fact, in the study of hangry spouses, the spouses were directed not to do their stabbing in front of each other. One can only imagine the escalating retaliation the poor dolls might have endured otherwise.
There may be a simple, albeit unusual, solution that will reduce your work stress and improve your job without having to deal with bloodshed or litigation: a boss voodoo doll. Let us explain the logic. A study published in The Leadership Quarterly found that taking your frustration out on a voodoo doll—even an online version—can give an employee with a toxic boss a greater sense of justice, without actually hurting anyone—or risking your job—in the process.
They were then told to take those emotions out on a virtual voodoo doll by stabbing it with pins, burning it with a candle, or pinching it with pliers, and complete a reflection exercise afterward. Their responses revealed that the employees were satisfied, feeling like they had gotten revenge, without, you know, actually murdering their manager.
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As It Happens Stabbing a voodoo doll of your boss can reduce work stress, study finds Stabbing a voodoo doll that represents your boss can be a good way to blow off steam and improve your work performance, an Ontario study has found.
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