Being angry rather than simply in pain has a number of advantages, primarily among them distraction. People in pain generally think about their pain.
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While very heavy pen pressure can suggest tension and anger, moderately heavy pressure is a sign of commitment. Soft pressure means you're empathetic and sensitive.
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Some people develop an unconscious habit of transforming almost all of their vulnerable feelings into anger so they can avoid having to deal with them.
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It is more satisfying to feel angry than to acknowledge the painful feelings associated with vulnerability.
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Anger can be a good thing. It can give you a way to express negative feelings, for example, or motivate you to find solutions to problems.
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Angry people produce more unique ideas faster than people in any other type of emotional state, according to a study.
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Anger increases the desire for possession in people. People make more efforts to obtain the object that is associated with angry faces.
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Expressing anger is helpful, it releases tension and helps people to not have grudges against anyone because they express themselves every time they get angry.
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Anger temporarily protects people from having to recognize and deal with their painful real feelings; you get to worry about getting back at the people you're angry with instead.
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Pretending you don't have feelings like anger, sadness, or loneliness can mentally destroy you.
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The type of pain does not matter; the important thing is that the pain experienced is unpleasant. Because anger never occurs in isolation but rather is necessarily preceded by painful feelings, it is often characterized as a ''secondhand'' emotion.
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Anger is a social emotion. You always have a target that your anger is directed against (even if that target is yourself). Feelings of pain, combined with anger-triggering thoughts motivate you to take action, face threats and defend yourself by striking out against the target you think is causing you pain.
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People change their feelings of pain into anger because it feels better to be angry than it does to be in pain. This change of pain into anger may be done consciously or unconsciously.
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Men who have low levels of testosterone served as a threat to masculinity and led to engagement in more “gender stereotypical behaviors,” like getting into physical fights and anger.
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Pain alone is not enough to cause anger. Anger occurs when pain is combined with some anger-triggering thought.
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You can use anger to convert feelings of vulnerability and helplessness into feelings of control and power.
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