Psychology & Psychiatry

Why 'rage rooms' won't solve your anger issues

Rage rooms—where stressed out people go to relieve tension by smashing furniture, housewares, and electronics with baseball bats, crowbars, and sledgehammers—have become a global phenomenon. But taking out your frustration ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Master your anger—or at least try to understand it

Misery is psychology's stale bread and rancid butter. The field heaps attention on sadness, fear and anxiety, and their psychiatric cousins depression, phobia and neurosis.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Watch that temper! Americans turn to pros to curb anger

Bernard Minor spent 26 years behind bars for murdering a drug dealer who owed him $400. Now, the ex-con spends his days teaching others to keep their rage in check, one of the swelling ranks of America's anger therapists.

Neuroscience

Brain marker for angry dreams

Researchers have identified a pattern of brain activity that predicts anger experienced during dreaming, according to a new study of healthy adults published in JNeurosci. The research could potentially inform efforts to ...

Neuroscience

From age 8 we spontaneously link vocal to facial emotion

Do children have to wait until age 8 to recognize—spontaneously and without instructions—the same emotion of happiness or anger depending on whether it is expressed by a voice or on a face? A team of scientists from the ...

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