“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.” The quote from the 1976 movie Network is prophetic. Ratings are abysmal and someone needs to do something to salvage the network. The veteran ...

For much of my life, I viewed anger as an emotion that held a negative stigma. Growing up, I was taught that raising my voice meant losing my audience, and displaying anger signaled a loss of control.

Should a blind person be permitted to carry a gun in public? That’s the focus of a court battle currently underway in Iowa. Advocates for extending the “conceal and carry” law to include blind ...

Lexi McKee-Hemenway leads a march across the University of South Dakota campus in protest of the recent Supreme Court decision that triggered an abortion ban in the state. About 50 students came with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Anger is often described as a secondary response to underlying ...

Anger often gets a bad rap, but what if we told you that it’s not always the villain in your emotional story? Believe it or not, some anger can actually be beneficial and even necessary. It can drive ...

As noted in the first post in this series on the emotions, Robert Trivers (1971) identified moralistic aggression, a.k.a. righteous anger, as one of the human adaptations that once helped to “regulate ...

When pastors get angry, things can get complicated. On the one hand, we know that anger is not always an indication of sin. After all, we say to ourselves, Jesus got angry. Paul also counseled the ...

Church leaders found themselves in a difficult but sadly familiar position, as they faced their congregations. Regular worshippers at Sacred Heart Church in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, and visitors from ...

Spike Lee's reaction to a rival’s best picture win wasn’t "arrogance" but "an ?awareness of how little Hollywood has changed" — and recognition that, 30 years after 'Do the Right Thing,' he’s still an ...

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