Anger
Anger is an emotion related to one's psychological interpretation of having been offended, wronged or denied and a tendency to react through retaliation. Shiela Videbeck describes anger as a normal emotion that involves a strong uncomfortable and emotional response to a perceived provocation. Raymond Novaco of UC Irvine, who since 1975 has published a plethora of literature on the subject, stratified anger into three modalities: cognitive (appraisals), somatic-affective (tension and agitations) and behavioral (withdrawal and antagonism). William DeFoore, an anger-management writer, described anger as a pressure cooker: we can only apply pressure against our anger for a certain amount of time until it explodes. Anger may have physical correlates such as increased heart rate, blood pressure, and levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as part of the fight or flight brain response to the perceived threat of harm. Anger becomes the predominant feeling behaviorally, cognitively, and physiologically when a person makes the conscious choice to take action to immediately stop the threatening behavior of another outside force. The English term originally comes from the term anger of Old Norse language. Anger can have many physical and mental consequences.
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Famous quotes containing the word anger:
“All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Your anger charms me,
and yet all the time
I think of chaste, slight hands,
veined snow.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)