Chapter 7 Review: Anger

Chapter 7 review: anger

Anger usually causes harm

Adults manage to control their anger, people also differ from the intensity of their anger:

              -Slow Burner

              -Short fused

              -Explosive

              -Hothead

              -Cool

Causes of Anger

              -Frustration

              -Physical or verbal attack

              -Physical threat

              -Someone’s action or statement, which causes you to feel psychologically hurt

              -Observing someone do something, which violates your morals

              -A person failure to reach your expectations, usually is a parent towards child

              -Another person’s anger directed to you

* The ones marked as red are not common

Physical phenomenon when angry

              -Blood pressure increases

              -The face may redden

              -The veins on the neck and forehead become more apparent

              -Breathing changes

              -Muscles tensed

People who can’t express the emotion anger usually has psychological illnesses

Intensity of Anger

              -Mild anger: slight irritation or annoyance

              -Extreme anger: rage or fury

Blend of anger

              -The blend of another emotion usually causes the anger expression unclear or being easily masked.

anger (lip press, tension on eyelids)+disgust(upper-lip raise, nose wrinkled, )

Unmasking the face, Paul Ekman, p.93

two types of anger+disgust

Unmasking the Face, Paul Ekman, p.94

anger(brow and eyes) + surprise(mouth)

Unmasking the Face, Paul Ekman, p.95

The appearance of anger:

            "  -The brows are lowered and drawn together

              -Vertical lines between the brows

              -The lower lid is tensed and may or may not be raised

              -The upper lip is tensed and may or may not be lowered by the actions of the brow

              -The eyes are a hard stare and may have a bulging appearance

              -The lips are in either of two basic positions: pressed or firmly together, with the corners straight or down; or open, tensed in a “squarish” shape as if shouting.

              -The nostrils may be dilated, but this is not essential to the anger facial expression and may also occur in sadness

              -There is ambiguity unless anger is registered in all three facial areas" (Unmasking the face, Paul Ekman, p95-97)