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This article describes a clever scientific study that aimed to find out whether or not nature posters hung in offices would reduce stress and anger levels for employees. To test out the effect of posters, the scientists made study participants unknowingly do annoying computer activities (but funny ones for us).

Part 2 of Justin van Kleek's musing on activism, anger and better ways to communicate an environmental agenda.

And one technique taught in mindfulness meditation is naming your emotions. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)... found that assigning names to negative emotions turns down the intensity of activity in the amygdala — an almond-sized sector of the brain that acts like an alarm system: When you witness a car crash, argue with your spouse or get yelled at by your boss, it’s your amygdala’s job to set off a cascade of stress-related reactions.