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PubMed1992

[The effects of subconscious processing of anger-related words and physiological arousal on the emotion of anger and aggressive behavior].

An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of the prior subconscious processing of anger-related words and physiological arousal upon anger and aggressive behavior in a frustrated person. Sixteen male and 24 female college students participated in the experiment. First, the subjects performed a cognitive task in which they processed anger-related words or neutral words subconsciously in the high arousal or normal arousal state. In the second ostensibly unrelated task, the subjects were presented with a frustration story and they were asked to rate the intensity of anger which the victim in the story would feel, the victim's responses, and impressions of the frustrator, on several SD-trait scales. It was found that the subjects who processed anger-related words in high arousal state rated the victim as being in the most intense anger and aggressive in behavior and reported the impression of the frustrator as most negative. These findings were interpreted in terms of the network model of emotion.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1992

Patterns of social desirability and anger in young men with a parental history of hypertension: association with cardiovascular activity.

We identified, via cluster analysis, subgroups of young men with a parental history of hypertension (PH+) who differed in their profiles of need for approval, covert experience of anger, and extent to which they express anger when provoked. The PH+ subgroup with high need for approval and low anger acknowledgment scored higher on denial but lower on measures of angry temperament and overt display of anger than did the PH+ subgroup with low need for approval and high anger acknowledgment or men without a parental history of hypertension (PH-). Moreover, the PH+ subgroup with high need for approval and low anger acknowledgment manifested significantly higher stressor-induced blood pressure (BP) responsivity than did the other two groups. Possible relations between parental history status, need for approval, anger, BP reactivity, and essential hypertension are discussed.

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PubMed1977

The effect of descriptive anger expression, insult, and no feedback on interpersonal aggression, hostility, and empathy motivation.

In a test of the hypothesis that descriptive anger expression elicits less subsequent aggression and greater empathy than does aggressive insult, 60 male undergraduates were instructed to set varying levels of shock for an opponent during a series of competitive trials before and after hearing one of four types of taped comment. Results indicated that descriptive anger expression led to a significant decrease in aggression, while no feedback (opponent said nothing) led to an increase in aggression. Insult and no anger feedback resulted in little change in aggressive behavior. In contrast, descriptive anger expression, insult, and no anger feedback produced more residual hostility than did no feedback. Descriptive anger expression Ss appeared to be more motivated by empathy in setting shocks, as compared to the other three groups. Empathy was found to be generally associated with lower shock settings initially and with reductions in shock settings following the opponent's comments. Empathy, however, was not related to Ss' hostility ratings. The results tend to support the clinical utility of descriptive anger expression in improving interpersonal relations.

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PubMed1979

Anger and its control in Graeco-Roman and modern psychology.

Modern psychologists have studied the phenomena of anger and hostility with diverse methodologies and from a variety of theoretical orientations. The close relationships between anger and aggression, psychosomatic disorder and personal unhappiness, make the understanding and control of anger an important individual and social goal. For all of its sophistication and accomplishment, however, most of the modern research demonstrates, to its disadvantage, a lack of historical perspective with respect to the analysis and treatment of anger, whether normal or pathological. This attitude has deprived psychology of a rich source of empirical observations, intriguing, testable hypotheses, and ingenious techniques of treatment. Of the literature that has been neglected, the analyses of the emotion of anger in the writings of Greek and Roman moral philosophers, particularly Aristotle (4th century B.C.), Seneca (1st century A.D.) and Plutarch (early 2nd century A.D.) are of particular interest. Although modern analyses and methods of treatment are in some ways more refined and more quantitatively precise, and are often subjected to validation and modification by empirical-experimental tests, scientific psychology has, to date, contributed relatively little to the understanding and control of anger that is novel except for research on its physiological dimensions. We can still benefit from the insight, prescriptions and procedures of the classicists, who in some respects offer more powerful methods of control than the most recently published works. Naturally, the modern psychotherapist or behavior therapist can and must go beyond the ancients, as is inherent in all scientific and intellectual progress, but there are no scientific or rational grounds for ignoring them as has been done for 75 years.

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PubMed1976

The functions and regulation of the arousal of anger.

Anger is paradoxically one of the most talked about but least studied of human emotions. The author presents a model of anger arousal that emphasizes the adaptive as well as the maladaptive roles of anger in terms of the diverse functions anger serves in affecting behavior. In light of the fact that competence in anger management involves dealing with stress situations that require patience, composure, and constructive thought for their resolution, he discusses cognitive self-control processes affecting the regulation of anger.

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PubMed1977

Anger provocation as a crisis intervention technique.

The author describes the use of anger provocation, a technique that encourages patients to express their repressed anger to a therapist who makes himself the target for their anger. He presents five case examples to illustrate the positive effects of the technique in crisis and emergency situations. Three of the patients were depressed and withdrawn, one was suffering from conversion hysteria, and one was a paranoid schizophrenic. The author cautions that the technique must be used with discretion only in those cases where the repression of anger is producing major incapacitating symptomatology, but where the anger is not the major source of disorganization.

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PubMed1976

The antecedents of anger in a sample of college students.

Eighty-three college students were surveyed in an attempt to identify the situations that elicit anger or a loss of temper. The 356 responses were sorted into seven rational categories with substantial interrater reliability. There were no significant sex differences; however, there were more antecedents reported for anger than for loss of temper. On a self-rating scale a high percent of Ss gave a benign report on the frequency of their anger arousal and loss of temper. However, the intensity of anger was reported as greater than that of others by 32% of the males and 20% of the females.

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PubMed2026

Family communication patterns and adolescent depressive symptoms: sequential mediating effects of hedonic capacity and anger expression.

OBJECTIVE: Depression is increasingly prevalent among adolescents, highlighting the need to explore its underlying developmental mechanisms to inform effective prevention. This study examined how different family communication patterns longitudinally impact adolescent depressive symptoms, with a focus on the mediating roles of diminished hedonic capacity and anger expression. METHOD: A total of 729 Chinese adolescents from five high schools participated in this two-wave longitudinal study over a six-month period. Participants completed the Family Communication Patterns Scale (FCPS), the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), the Anhedonia Scale for Adolescents (ASA), and the Children's Inventory of Anger (ChIA). Mediation analyses were conducted using Hayes' PROCESS macro, alongside cross-lagged panel analyses to explore longitudinal effect. RESULTS: Cross-sectional analyses indicated that diminished hedonic capacity and anger experience sequentially mediated the relationship between family communication patterns and adolescent depressive symptoms. Specifically, this mediating effect existed for conversation orientation in junior high school students and female senior high school students, as well as for conformity orientation among female junior and senior high school students. In addition, longitudinal analyses revealed that diminished hedonic capacity mediated the associations at Wave 2. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that enhanced hedonic capacity and reduced anger expression may play a key role in the relationship between family communication patterns and adolescent depression, and hedonic capacity should be prioritized in practical interventions. These results support the potential value of interventions that promote positive family communication patterns as a means of mitigating adolescent depression, particularly for families with daughters.

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PubMed1977

Anger and fear.

The author proposes that fear and anger are innate defensive mechanisms mobilized by preceived threats to the individual. Both mechanisms are accompanied by anxiety and an urge to escape or attack. The individual's lifestyle, which is the result of interaction between his innate qualities and life experiences, determines whether he will attempt to deal with threats, his fear and/or anger, and the resulting anxiety in an objective or pathological manner. This formulation underscores the need to learn methods of coping with anger and fear from early childhood, so that they do not develop into pathological behavior patterns.

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PubMed1977

Rape: power, anger, and sexuality.

Accounts from both offenders and victims of what occurs during a rape suggest that issues of power, anger, and sexuality are important in understanding the rapist's behavior. All three issues seem to operate in every rape, but the proportion varies and one issue seems to dominate in each instance. The authors ranked accounts from 133 offenders and 92 victims for the dominant issue and found that the offenses could be categorized as power rape (sexuality used primarily to express power) or anger rape (use of sexuality to express anger). There were no rapes in which sex was the dominant issue; sexuality was always in the service of other, nonsexual needs.

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PubMed1978

[Experimental study on the effect of ephedrine in an anger-provoking situation].

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of ephedrine-induced sympathetic arousal on emotional reactions in an anger-provoking situation. The effects of ephedrine were compared with a placebo condition while the effects of the anger-situation were compared to a neutral control situation. 60 male students were randomly assigned to one of the four conditions of the two-factor design. The dependent variables were various peripheral-physiological measures and self rating of physical and emotional states. Both independent variables were found to be effective. Contrary to expectation, ephedrine decreased subjective emotional reactions to the anger-provoking situation rather than increase it. Methodological problems and possible conclusions about the role of sympathetic arousal for emotional reactions are discussed.

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PubMed1978

Comparison of the Anger tomographic scanner and the 15-in. scintillation camera for gallium imaging.

The Anger longitudinal emission multiplane tomoscanner and a 15-in. Anger camera with multipeak spectroscopic capability were compared in a series of 51 patients. The tomoscanner was preferred in 49%, the camera in 12%, and 39% were equivalent. The tomoscanner preference is statistically significant (p less than .025). These data support the conclusion that the Anger multiplane tomographic scanner is the instrument of choice for gallium-67 imaging.

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PubMed1977

A stress inoculation approach to anger management in the training of law enforcement officers.

Consultation with law enforcement personnel in the area of conflict-management has typically been concerned with interpersonal rather than intrapersonal conflict. An approach to anger management that is based on cognitive self-control techniques is described as it has been used in the training of police officers. The approach follows a procedure called "stress inoculation" that has been applied to anxiety and pain (Meichenbaum, 1975). Data are presented on the anger experiences of policemen, and suggestions are offered for the selection of police candidates regarding their proneness for provocation.

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PubMed1977

The effect of fear on the aggressive responses of anger aroused and revenge motivated subjects.

In a 3 x 2 between Ss design employing 54 male college students, one group of Ss was given neutral feedback (neutral condition) by a confederate (C), and another group was insulted by a C (anger condition). Both of these groups were given an immediate opportunity to aggress against a second C. A third group was insulted by one C and given the opportunity to aggress against that same C one day later (revenge condition). Ss were also told that the target either would or would not have the opportunity to retaliate (fear and no fear conditions). Fear significantly depressed aggression only in the revenge condition, and the revenge condition was the only feedback condition in which the level of aggressiveness was above that of the neutral condition (p less than .05). It was speculated that anger might serve as a disinhibitor of responses suppressed by fear.

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PubMed1978

When courtesy offends: effects of positive and negative behavior by the pbysically disabled on altruism and anger in normals.

The initial hypothesis was that physically disabled help-seekers will receive more aid from normal people than will help-seekers when both types of actors display positive personal qualities, whereas the reverse outcome will occur when both display negative qualities. In the first experiment a wheelchair-bound or normal confederate was either friendly and achievement oriented (positive condition) or caustic and apathetic (negative condition) while administering verbal tasks to subjects who were later asked to help the confederate. Contrary to prediction, subjects offered more help to the normal than to the disabled tester in the positive condition, and showed the reverse pattern in the negative condition. It was conjectured that subjects in the positive condition were annoyed by the disabled person's display of "normal" characteristics, whereas in the negative condition they sympathetically accepted the disabled person's inadequacies as befitting a victim of severe misfortune. A new experiment was done, which replicated the independent variables of the first study, but substituted two new dependent variables: covert anger arousal and perception of the confederate as happy-unhappy. As expected, covert anger was greater in the wheelchair-positive condition than in the normal-positive condition, and greater in the normal-negative condition than in the wheelchair-negative condition. Regardless of the confederate's physical status, subjects perceived negative behavior as a sign of unhappiness.

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PubMed1978

Anger, disability, and demands in the family.

Parents' tendency to perceive children with behavior problems as "disabled" frequently represents a projection of helplessness, and can be interpreted as a defense against anger. Shared family presumptions regarding the disabling effects of "anger" may lead to revision of behavioral goals or preclude adoption of effective problem-solving tactics. Implications for therapy are offered.

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PubMed1976

Four- and six-month-old infants' visual responses to joy, anger, and neutral expressions.

24 infants, 12 4-month-olds and 12 6-month-olds, were repeatedly shown slides of 3 facial expressions. The expressions were previously judged by obervers to be indicators of joy, anger, and no emotion, respectively. The duration of the first visual fixation to each presentation of the slides was monitored for each subject. The data indicated that the infants looked at the joy expression significantly more than at either the anger or neutral expressions. The results suggest that infants are capable of discriminating emotion expressions earlier in their development than previous studies have implied.

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PubMed1975

[The influence of neuroleptics on the emotional anger reaction in animals].

In experimental observations the reaction of anger in cats was tested under the effects of psychotropic drugs. They were inhibited by chlopromazine and trifluoperazine. An even stronger effect on the emotional and in addition on the reaction of aggression is produced by haloperidol. By electrical and chemical stimulation of the anterior section of the hypothalamus and the central substantia grisea the evoked fit of emotion, as regards the vegetative and motor manifestations is repressed by all three preparations; but not as regards the specific components of the anger reaction, like growling and spitting. In further experiments chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine and haloperidol were injected into the nucleus amygdalae and in the nucleus caudatus. This resulted in a pronounced tropism in the amygdaloid nucleus, and a lesser tropism in the nucleus caudatus with the neuroleptica of the phenothiazine type. Haloperidol, on the other hand, did not effect the activity of the nucleus amygdalae and creates an obvious tropism in the nucleus caudatus.

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