Studies on Anger and Aggression
Implications for Theories of Emotion
James R. Averill University of Massachusetts, Amherst
ABSTRACT: A series of surveys on the everyday experience
of anger is described, and a sample of data
from these surveys is used to address a number of
issues related to the social bases of anger. These issues
include the connection between anger and aggression;
the targets, instigations, and consequences of typical
episodes of anger; the differences between anger and
annoyance; and possible sex differences in the experience
and/or expression of anger. In a larger sense,
however, the primary focus of the paper is not on anger
and aggression. Rather, anger is used as a paradigm
case to explore a number of issues in the study of
emotion, including the advantages and limitations of
laboratory research, the use of self-reports, the proper
unit of analysis for the study of emotion, the relationship
between human and animal emotion, and
the......
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