Chronic physical pain is one of the greatest challenges a person can face. Here’s why anger can preclude relief and recovery.

"How do I stop being so angry? Now that I understand what went on in my childhood, I am just so angry. I’m angry at my mother for treating me so cruelly. I’m angry at my father for standing by. I’m ...

This story is featured in the January/February issue of ESSENCE. Black women have a fraught relationship with anger. Whether we’re distancing ourselves from the harmful stereotype of the combative, ...

There’s a bad reputation afforded to anger – just one letter away from danger. But it’s time we gave this core emotion a more rounded consideration, believes Sam Parker, site director for British GQ, ...

Anger is not usually a pleasant feeling. When we feel we’ve been wronged—by, say, a slow driver or a boss or a noisy neighbor—our heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature go up, preparing us ...

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 ...

Women become better at managing anger as they age, particularly during midlife—a period often marked by hormonal shifts and emotional challenges—a study found. The research, published in the journal ...

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, ...