Unit 4
VIDEO SCRIPT
Charles Gibson: We have all been told to hold
our temper when we get angry. Don't blow a
fuse. Of course, we’re also told we shouldn't
keep our anger bottled up inside. So which is
it? John Stossel found some people actually
taking lessons on how to lose their temper . . .
or not. We'll let him explain.
John Stossel: Many people believe humans are a
lot like pressure cookers, that we need to let
off steam sometimes.
Woman at table: You didn't even say one nice
word to them.
John Stossel: Jim Girgenti believes that.
Jim Girgenti: Make believe you have someplace
to go. Come on!
John Stossel: Jim and his family live in
Philadelphia, where Jim works for an Internet
company A lot of the time, Jim's a good
husband and father.
Jim Girgenti: Get up, wise guy
John Stossel: But he also spends a lot of time
snappirx at his wife, jan, and their two kids.
Jim Girgenti: Whatever possessed you to do
that? Sienna, I think you need to spend some
time in your room.
John Stossel: Jim doesn't think there's anything
Wrong with his anger. He feels it works
for him.
Jim Girgenti: And how come you’re not out of
your uniform yet?
John Stossel: And many people believe that
this . . .
Jim Girgenti: Hello! You want to stay in
your lane?
John Stossel: . . . is healthy. Ex-Marine David
Morgan recently opened a new business in Los
Angeles dedicated to helping people vent,
though not at people. For just eight dollars,
customers get to spend a few minutes beating
on this dummy
David Morgan: This is what this is for, the bataka.
This can be a situation, an incident, a person.
John Stossel: I gave it a try I thought about my
boss and my older brother. (I like this.) It was a
good workout, but would this reduce anger?
Carolyn Amos says it does. She’s tried all
kinds of other techniques.
Carolyn Amos: I walk and I meditate, and they
help. They help get the stress out. But it’s
nothing like ... like hitting the dummy I
mean, you just really have to whack
something.
John Stossel: She says she’s always gotten angry
in traffic, fuming at the delays, screaming at
people who cut her off, until she did this.
Carolyn Amos: The anger just wasn’t there.
Brad Bushman: lt’s a seductive theory. It does
make sense. But it’s a myth. There’s virtually
no scientific evidence to support it.
John Stossel: Brad Bushman’s a professor of
psychology at Iowa State. He’s among a
number of social scientists who now believe
venting’s a bad idea. Any kind of venting is
bad, they say-venting at people or even
inanimate objects. Sure, they say, it’11 make
you feel better. But the feeling won’t last. lt’ll
just make you more angry the next time. All
the advice I hear is that if you’re angry you’ve
got to vent it, or it eats you up.
Brad Bushman: lt’s bad advice. lt produces
harmful effects. It’s bad for society.
Iohn Stossel: Most researchers we talked to
agreed with Bushrnan. And other studies have
gotten similar results. But how does that
explain the benefits people say they get from
venting? I showed our tapes to Dr. Bushman.
John Lee: Hmm. I-low’s that feel now?
Florence Brown: Alot better.
John Stossel: She feels a lot better.
Brad Bushman: She might feel a lot better, but
g what’s happening here is she’s learning how to
behave aggressively.
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]ohn Stossel: Well, now some experts on anger
say there are different kinds of anger
disorders, that there are people who overvent
and others who undervent, that these are
different problems and therefore they should
be treated differently An underventer like
Florence, Who's mostly repressed her anger,
may benefit from being encouraged to get it
out in a safe way, On the other hand, an
overventer like Iim, who already vents at the
slightest annoyance...
Jim Girgenti: It’s green!
Iohn Stossel: ... needs to learn techniques to
control his anger. All the experts say venting at
people, especially your family is a bad idea.
Jim Girgenti: Son, I think you need to...
John Stosselz After awhile, as Iirn watched
himself on our tapes, he started to think that
maybe he did have a problem.
Jim Girgenti: (And how come you’re not out of
your uniform yet?) I wouldn’t want somebody
talking to me that way I’ve got to learn to back
off.
John Stossel: ]im agreed to attend this anger
management workshop at the Albert Ellis
Institute in New York City It’s run by Ray
DiGiuseppe, who tries to get people to
exchange their angry reactions for something
more useful.
Ray DiGiuseppe: So have you done much
problem solving?
Jim Girgenti: Not to this point.
John Stossel: Comparative studies have shown
that this kind of anger treatment clearly does
work for overventers. First, Ray tries to show
them how their anger affects their
relationships.
Ray DiGiuseppe: The most negative
consequence of anger is that it impairs
interpersonal relationships, in the long run. In
the short run, you get people to do what you
Want.
John Stossel: Iim, for example, uses his anger to
keep his kids under control.
Ray DiGiuseppe: Yelling and screaming at them
and embarrassing them isn’t really going to
solidify the relationship or get them to behave
better.
John Stossel: In fact, Ray tells jim, “Your anger
actually keeps you from solving your
problems.” He asks jim to try a different
approach. “Next time," says Ray ”when
driving home, change the way you think about
things,"
Ray DiGiuseppe: Let me expect that they’re not
going to do what I want, and let me figure out
how I'm going to handle the situation.
john Stosselz In the next session he tells jim, give
your daughter a choice,
Jim Girgenti: Either clean it up, or you don’t
watch TV for a night, two nights. No
computer ... or something along _ . .
Ray DiGiuseppe: Give her a real consequence.
jim Girgenti: Right.
Ray DiGiuseppe: OK, now is there any way that
she talks that I could do to be more like her?
Jim Girgenti: You can call me an idiot a couple of
times as you’re going up the stairs.
Ray DiGiuseppe: OK, ready? Oh, dad, you’re
such an idiot. W`hy don’t you let me watch the
TV? I’ll do it when I’m done. I’l1 do it later.
You know, don’t bother me with that, Dad. I'll
do it later.
Jim Girgenti: All right. That's it. No TV GO to
your room.
Ray DiGiuseppe: Oh, Dad, you’re such an idiot.
Jim Girgenti: That’s OK. You still have no TV
Ray DiGiuseppe: How angry did you feel then?
Jim Girgenti: I felt no anger.
Ray DiGiuseppe: V\/-hy?
Jim Girgenti: Because I came to the realization
that I was not going to accomplish anything by
having a verbal battle. I know how to handle
the situation.
John Stossel: jim attended four of these sessions
in four weeks. Have they helped?
Jim Girgenti: Absolutely
John Stossel: What have you learned?
Jim Girgenti: That I should stop and think prior
to acting.
John Stossel: You had to go to a workshop to tell
you to stop and think?
Jim Girgenti: Well, sometimes you need the
outside influence to make you see the light, as
it were.
Connie Chung: John Stossel is with us now.
Now, if you don’t have a dummy to bash . . . I
mean, I could bash Charlie, but he’s no
dummy. What do you do? I-Iow do you vent
your anger?
John Stossel: Me?
Connie Chung: Yeah.
John Stossel: Like when you called me a stiff this
morning on live TV?
Connie Chung: I was teasing. I didn’t mean it.
John Stosselz: I just ... actually I hold it in. I give
myself back pain, I think.
Connie Chung: I hold it in.
Charles Gibson: As do I. We’re three for three on
that score.
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