Alvaro Gómez Prado: ‘At this time there is the mistaken idea that people can never react impulsively’

The clinical psychologist, Álvaro Gómez Prado, spoke to us about emotional intelligence and the management of emotions, expressing that, in these times, some have a misconception that people can never react impulsively to a situation.

He added that the reality is that all human beings “have impulses and not only aggressive ones.”

The specialist argued that aggression is normal to human beings and has to do with many things, usually when one gets angry and used the social network Twitter as an example, where one sees that everyone “has a megaphone and expresses himself, people are very angry”.

“Every time an issue of corruption comes up, one says: ‘But I’m here working every day and the other steals the money.’ People are very angry and at this time we have to pay attention to how we are feeling, “said Gómez.