After discovering the top affliction for most employees, these researchers looked for the best way to fix it. Their answer:

It depends on whether you’re a man or a woman.

When researchers at Texas A&M found that one out of every four American workers admitted to being chronically angry in the workplace, they began a simulated office experiment to see what’d help reduce anger and stress levels.

210 participants were told they were being tested on a variety of computer-based tasks. These “tasks” were impossible to complete and were designed to invoke rage in each participant. What the researchers were actually looking into was how varying levels of abstract and nature paintings strewn about the fake office cubicles would affect anger levels. They hypothesized that the more decorations a cubicle had, the lower stress and anger levels an individual would have.

But the findings didn’t work exactly as planned. Abstract and nature paintings resulted in lower anger levels for men — but they had little to no impact on the levels for the female group.

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