Anger
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Anger Apocalypse
Our species is certainly angry. Just look at our history: wars and conflict over thousands of years. Surely that can’t be innate, can it? Surely the time will come when humankind overcomes the epidemic of anger. Won’t it?
But let’s focus now on the last half century. For better or worse, it appears that our relationship with anger has changed since the fifties. In the fifties, it seemed like we kept more of a lid on our anger, or perhaps we channeled it only in certain directions that we felt were socially acceptable. Is that good or bad? You can make an argument either way. It’s good in that people aren’t abusing one another with reckless abandon. It’s bad if people are forced to…
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How to make your anger work for you
Anger is misunderstood. Unjustly maligned as a wholly negative emotion, anger contains multitudes: It can be both blinding yet clarifying, suffocating yet motivating. Anger serves as an internal alarm, calling attention to an unfairness or a wrong that needs righting, says psychologist Ryan Martin, author of How to Deal With Angry People and Why We Get Mad: How to Use Your Anger for Positive Change. We experience anger both the moment an offense occurs and in every instance we recall the event thereafter.
What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest?
They gauged various online emotions by tracking emoticons embedded in millions of messages posted on Sina Weibo, a popular Twitter-like microblogging platform. Their conclusion: Joy moves faster than sadness or disgust, but nothing is speedier than rage. The researchers found that users reacted most angrily—and quickly—to reports
Anger is a business
Many news outlets' business models now depend on stoking anger. This exacerbates the political system's polarization and dysfunction.
Angry Outbursts Really Do Hurt Your Health, Doctors Find
New evidence suggests people increase their risk for a heart attack more than eightfold shortly after an intensely angry episode. Anger can also help bring on strokes and irregular heartbeat, other research shows. And it may lead to sleep problems, excess eating and insulin resistance, which can help cause diabetes.
Do 'Rage Blackouts' Actually Exist?
Fury to the point of unconsciousness, after which your actions are no longer your 'own', is a controversial theory among mental health experts.
How to Stop Violence
Mentally ill people aren’t killers. Angry people are.
Taming Baby Rage: Why Are Some Kids So Angry?
New research indicates babies are born with violent tendencies that most learn to control.
The Varieties of Anger
Bitterness. Hostility. Rage. The varieties of anger are endless. Some are mild, such as grumpiness, and others are powerful, such as wrath. Different angers vary not only in their intensity but also in their purpose. It’s normal to feel exasperated with your screaming infant and scornful of a political opponent, but scorn toward your baby would be bizarre.
When Anger Is An Illness
Demand for such programs is coming from courts seeking alternatives to jail sentences and companies hoping to avoid lawsuits and office blowups.
Anger Isn’t a Mental Illness. Can We Treat It Anyway?
We’ve seen it in mass shootings again and again—anger is the predecessor to violence. Can we find these people, and help them before they kill?
It's easier to convey anger in your second language
Our emotions shape which language we decide to use.
Rage rooms are the latest self-care craze that won’t make us feel any better
Female rage is all the rage these days. It has launched a thousand think pieces and served as the subject of two recently released books — Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad and Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her — that treat the centrality of rage in the feminist movement, and mad women more generally. Anger has been a clarion call of sorts for women on the left since the 2016 election: Get mad.
This Is What Road Rage Does to Your Body
Pretty much everyone has been angry behind the wheel, but outbursts (on or off the road) may not be great for you. This is what road rage can do to your brain and body.
The Anger Apocalypse
Our species is certainly angry. Just look at our history: wars and conflict over thousands of years. Surely that can’t be innate, can it? Surely the time will come when humankind overcomes the epidemic of anger. Won’t it?
6 Signs It’s Time to Talk to Someone About Your Anger
You don’t need to have road rage to have a problem.
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