What might it mean if you feel angry all the time and how can you go about managing the emotion to lead to more productive ...

Anger can hit us when we least expect it. There are some people who get angry and not know what they are angry about. The reaction can not only affect us in our profession lives but out personal lives ...

New research indicates that anger can help people overcome challenges or obstacles that might get in the way of their ambitions. A study published this week in the Journal of Personality and Social ...

This story is featured in the January/February issue of ESSENCE. Black women have a fraught relationship with anger. Whether we’re distancing ourselves from the harmful stereotype of the combative, ...

It is well established in psychology that humans conceptualize emotions by features known as valence (the degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness) and arousal (the intensity of bodily reactions, such ...

In the 1970s, psychologist Paul Eckman defined six basic emotions of which he believed all other emotions were a combination. He theorized that these six emotions — happiness, sadness, fear, anger, ...

When you’re mad as hell, it’s human nature to want to tell someone about it. Many work friendships have started over mutual venting about the boss. But while your gut reaction may be to send a “this ...

Angry facial expressions produced at real world speeds are harder for people with autism to recognize than other facial expressions, a new study finds. Both the intensity of an expression and the ...

Faces and voices are more likely to be judged as male when they are angry, and as female when they are happy, new research has revealed. The study found that how we understand the emotional expression ...

This article is part of All the Rage, an editorial package that digs into the science of anger. SELF will be publishing new articles for this series all week. Read more here. It’s easy to assume that ...