Dr. Ryan Martin, a psychologist who has researched anger for more than two decades, found himself behind the wheel of his car on the freeway, fuming. Martin had been making good time on his morning ...

In the 1970s, psychologist Paul Eckman defined six basic emotions of which he believed all other emotions were a combination. He theorized that these six emotions — happiness, sadness, fear, anger, ...

Anger is the kind of feeling people try to tamp down, out of fear that it will ignite and explode. Pretending your anger doesn't exist causes it to compress itself, making a home in the small space of ...

If someone is mistreating you, anger might be a form of protection for you. After all, the message you are giving is that you are strong, you understand that you are being treated unfairly, and you ...