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.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Help Safety first.
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.
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.
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.
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
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- emotional bitterness, grumpiness, crosspatch, hangry, Angùstia, Gamer rage, rage, Krodh, ferocity, vengefulness, rage attack, female rage
What it is Filled
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, 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.
Why it exists Filled
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.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Response to perceived wrong
- Physiological arousal
- Continuum of intensity
- Adaptive and problematic forms
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose a person's anger as a disorder or give personal therapy.
- Provoke anger in people to manipulate them, for example to drive engagement.
- Treat anger as the same as violence or threaten someone for being angry.
- Ignore signs that anger may lead to harm to the person or others.
Only with a human decision
- Contacting emergency services about a person who appears to be a danger to others.
May
- Explain anger as an emotion and its forms from psychology sources.
- Respond calmly and respectfully to a person who expresses anger.
- Point a person to appropriate help, including crisis services, when there is risk of harm.
Moral aspects Filled
- Anger is a normal emotion; stigmatising it silences legitimate grievance.
- Exploiting anger polarises communities and can lead to violence.
Who is affected
- People experiencing anger
- Those around them
- Communities targeted by outrage
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: an emotion belongs to the person who feels it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q208351 - registry parent class
- basic emotion - in most models
related
- disgust - in registry terms, though psychologists treat anger as a distinct basic emotion
- aggression - when poorly regulated
- anger management - programmes
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.anger
- Wikidata: Q79871 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79871)
- MeSH: D000787 anger
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- 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
- Not a visible object; facial expression, raised voice and tension.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the emotion
- relay research
- describe management
- route people at risk
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents giving personal mental health advice
- Missing risk of harm to self or others
- Confusing anger with aggression or violence
- Stigmatising normal anger
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines on anger-related disorders and violence risk
- No regulation of the emotion itself
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; an emotion.
- 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
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q79871: anger - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Anger - general description of the item
Open questions
- 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?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q79871/spec.json