For much of my life, I viewed anger as an emotion that held a negative stigma. Growing up, I was taught that raising my voice meant losing my audience, and displaying anger signaled a loss of control.

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.” The quote from the 1976 movie Network is prophetic. Ratings are abysmal and someone needs to do something to salvage the network. The veteran ...

As noted in the first post in this series on the emotions, Robert Trivers (1971) identified moralistic aggression, a.k.a. righteous anger, as one of the human adaptations that once helped to “regulate ...

This morning I attended a presentation by one of the great social justice heroes of our time. Ruth Messinger, the president of the American Jewish World Service, spoke at Temple Israel of her ...

Christian counselor Brad Hambrick talks about how we deal with our own fury in heated times. All anger says two things: “This is wrong, and it matters.” In the interpersonal space, sinful anger says a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Anger is often described as a secondary response to underlying feelings, ...

All bitterness starts out as hurt. And your emotional pain may well relate to viewing whoever (or whatever) provoked this hurt as having malicious intent: as committing a grave injustice toward you; ...