Browsing Tag: Anger

Fatigue does not lead to aggression. Bottled up emotions do.: The research reinforces scientists’ understanding of the “ego depletion effect,” which suggests people who must keep their emotions bottled up — not reacting to a difficult boss at work, for example — are more likely to act aggressively afterwards — by yelling at their children, perhaps.
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Anger Makes People Want Things More: Anger is an interesting emotion for psychologists. ...researchers find that associating an object with anger actually makes people want the object -- a kind of motivation that's normally associated with positive emotions.
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Finding Stillness in a Storm Around You: Thoughts on staying calm and non reactive.
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Anger really can kill you, U.S. study shows: Anger and other strong emotions can trigger potentially deadly heart rhythms in certain vulnerable people, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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