The Sims 4: Here’s How to Research Angry Emotions

Since its release, Sims 4 has always had special tasks and challenges for Sims to do to achieve a goal in their everyday life. Life aspirations, special tasks, and more are part of Sims’ lives, and one particular Sims 4 feature started frustrating Sims players who wanted their Sims to become acting superstars. The expansion pack Get Famous introduced players to the new feature where an aspiring Sim needs to learn emotions to become the best actor the Sims world has ever seen – researching emotion. This article will discuss how to research angry emotion in Sims 4.

Why is Researching Angry emotion important in Sims 4?

Sims 4 was always “big” on moodlets, emotions, and other behavioral mechanics in the game. Life simulators are and should be focusing on Sims and their emotions, making Sims games better than the rest in that category. Of course, over the years, the Sims franchise added many great features to the game, but some are available through the base game, and some need to be purchased through special game expansions.

In this case, Angry emotion is the main point of this article. Besides the usual arguing between Sims, emotion is important in one particular Sim working career path – acting. Specifically, the career path is only available in the game if you purchase the special Sims 4 game expansion Get Famous.

Of course, emotions are important in Sims’ regular life and their acting career. In the Sims 4 game, Research Angry Emotion is a skill one needs to complete for your Sim to progress as an actor. When your Sim decides to pursue an acting career, they must join one acting agency to become famous. Sims then need to search for acting gigs and auditions to propel their career and become top-notch actors.

As it always is with recent Sims games, there are goals Sims needs to achieve to progress in their life achievements or working careers, including mastering the Angry emotion for an acting career. Some propose certain skills that Sims needs to know before going for a role. If you fail in Researching Angry emotions with your Sim, you won’t be able to progress your career in acting. Sims 4 players consider this task the hardest of them all, and in the next section, we will try to explain how to research angry emotions in the best ways possible.

How to get angry with your Sim?

If you look into the angry emotions or moodlets of Sims 4, you will realize that Anger is quite easy to achieve but mostly hard to maintain. Why? Well, positivity and other more neutral moodlets overwhelm Sims’ angry behavior, making researching angry emotions quite hard to achieve.

After years of playing Sims 4: Get Famous expansion, most fans realized that they needed to make their Sims “neutral” before making them angry. How? First, just wait for positive moodlets to expire – that will be hard to achieve, but don’t do anything with your Sim that will make them feel intense, happy emotions. Moodlets like Happy, Very Happy, Cheerful, and others shouldn’t appear on your Sims emotion “dashboard.” 

After removing positive moodlets, your Sim is ready to wreak havoc around them – interactions and activities work in angry researching technique:

Interactions:

• Provoke other Sims
• Vent
• Insult other Sims
• Attempt to Flirt 
• Denounce friendship
• Lose an argument

Activities:

• Angry pooping (Toilet) is strange but quite possible in this case.
• Look at the angry painting – your Sim will become agitated. 
• Kick a trashcan while your Sim is angry.
• Punching bag interactions.

This is how you can make your Sim angry – by replicating what we do in real life (even angry pooping). Now, let’s see how to research angry emotions in Sims 4.

How to research angry emotion in Sims 4?

To research Angry emotion in Sims 4, your Sim needs to obtain a task in the working career tab and get the “Research Angry Emotion” task. Now you can finally begin making everyone around you miserable or go to the room and be angry by yourself.

The second option is much healthier for you, Sim, in the long run since you won’t be scaring your friends and family away from you. Besides the usual arguing with other Sims and making their day miserable, you can purchase an angry painting and make your Sim angrily stare at it until they fulfill your Research Angry Emotion task. The best and easiest interaction is the Kick the Trashcan option, where your Sim is constantly kicking the trashcan and picking it up to repeat the notion.

While your Sim is angry and kicking everything in its sight, the task is slowly but surely complete when it gets to a hundred percent. When you complete the task, your Sim will be eligible for career progression and get more acting skills and celebrity status. This is how you Research Angry Emotion – you can even achieve it with angry pooping. That’s why we love Sims 4.

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