14 Facts About Anger

Anger, known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat.

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.

Anger, when viewed as a protective response or instinct to a perceived threat, is considered as positive.

Anger makes people less trusting, and slower to attribute good qualities to outsiders.

Anger can make a person more desiring of an object to which his anger is tied.

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Anger's studied the correlation between anger expression and social influence perception.

Anger research has studied the effects of reducing anger among adults with antisocial personality disorder, with a social skills program approach that used a low fear and high arousal group setting.

Anger argued that animal will is "conditioned by anger and appetite" in contrast to human will which is "conditioned by the intellect".

Anger is considered to be packed with more evil power than desire.

Anger is defined in Buddhism as: "being unable to bear the object, or the intention to cause harm to the object".

Anger is seen as aversion with a stronger exaggeration, and is listed as one of the five hindrances.

Anger doesn't realize that his danger is born from within.

Anger takes pleasure in bad deeds as if they were good, but later, when his anger is gone, he suffers as if burned with fire.

Anger is spoiled, blotted out, like fire enveloped in smoke.