If you have a rude boss or aggressive colleagues at your workplace, you are far more likely to make mistakes.<br/><br/>Researchers at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, have found that makes people commit more mistakes, even those who are not at the receiving end of the aggression.<br/><br/>Professor Rhona Flin, who led the research at the University of Aberdeen, said that human attention is powerfully driven by emotion.<br/><br/>In one experiment, students who were insulted by a professor on the way to the test performed worse on a series of memory tasks than others who had not been spoken to rudely.<br/><br/>Professor Flin said the link between performance and rudeness was particularly worrying when it comes to health care, with patients potentially being put at risk.