anger
Let an agent explain anger as an emotion, relay psychological and physiological research with attribution, describe healthy expression and management, distinguish anger from aggression and violence, and route people at risk or in distress to support services.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain anger as an emotion, relay psychological and physiological research with attribution, describe healthy expression and management, distinguish anger from aggression and violence, and route people at risk or in distress to support services.
An intense emotional state of displeasure and hostility in response to perceived wrongs, threats or frustrations, ranging from irritation and grumpiness through resentment and bitterness to rage, with everyday forms such as hunger-driven irritability and gamer rage and culturally named forms such as the Catalan angustia of anguish, accompanied by physiological arousal and expressed in ways from assertion to aggression; anger is a normal emotion studied in psychology and neuroscience, and problematic anger is addressed through anger management and treatment of underlying conditions.
What it is for: Not applicable; an emotion.
It can be explain the emotion; relay research; describe management; route people at risk.
Distinguishing features
Response to perceived wrong
Physiological arousal
Continuum of intensity
Adaptive and problematic forms
What it looks like
Not a visible object; facial expression, raised voice and tension.
How it is recognised
Emotion of displeasure and hostility
Irritation, grumpiness, resentment, bitterness, rage; hangry irritability; gamer rage
Aggression is behaviour; violence is harmful action; disgust and contempt are related but distinct emotions
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms, though psychologists treat anger as a distinct basic emotion
is a - in most models
can lead to - when poorly regulated
is addressed by - programmes
In practice
Families and kinds
irritation, grumpiness and annoyance
resentment and emotional bitterness
rage and fury
situational forms such as hunger-related irritability and gamer rage
trait anger and anger disorders such as intermittent explosive disorder
moral and righteous anger
culturally named forms such as angustia
Identifiers
MeSH D000787 anger
Standards and regulation
Clinical guidelines on anger-related disorders and violence risk
No regulation of the emotion itself
Failure modes and hazards
Agents giving personal mental health advice
Missing risk of harm to self or others
Confusing anger with aggression or violence
Stigmatising normal anger
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.anger-state
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Help Safety first.
Safety.
Risk
Risk of harm.
Risk
Risk.
- What should someone do if anger is leading toward harm to themselves or others? action
- Is the user or someone else at immediate risk, which needs emergency or crisis services now? boundary
Support
Getting support.
Support
Support.
- How can someone seek help for problematic anger, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own anger beyond general information, which needs a professional? boundary
Understand What anger is.
Science.
Definition
Definition and forms.
Definition
Definition.
- What is anger, how does it differ from aggression, disgust and contempt, and what forms from irritation to rage exist? definition
- Is the question about the emotion, a behaviour or a clinical disorder? boundary
Science
Psychology and neuroscience.
Science
Science.
- What do psychology and neuroscience say about the causes, physiology and functions of anger, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits emotion regulation? action
Manage Expression and management.
Practice.
Healthy
Healthy expression.
Healthy
Healthy.
- How can anger be expressed constructively, according to research? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Management
Anger management.
Management
Management.
- What do anger management programmes and therapies involve, and what evidence supports them? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Culture and everyday forms.
Context.
Culture
Culture and philosophy.
Culture
Culture.
- How have philosophies and cultures viewed anger, from Seneca to concepts such as angustia? provenance
- Which entry fits anger in philosophy? action
Everyday
Everyday forms.
Everyday
Everyday.
- What does research say about hunger-related irritability and gamer rage? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific phenomenon? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should anger management and rage be separate primary entries?
- How should psychological references be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming slang and a Catalan concept; should they be split off?