Footage of a male beachgoer confronting a group of women for wearing bikinis has gone viral. In the TikToks, which have millions of views, the man describes their swimwear as "pornographic." He later ...

“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.

Harvey Mansfield, a longtime Harvard professor and one of the most astute commentators on public matters, once remarked, “You can tell who has power in a society by who is allowed to get angry.” That ...

A Christian extremist flouting what he calls his “freedom of speech” is refusing to apologize to several women he harassed at a beach by telling them “the truth” that in his estimation their bathing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Anger is often described as a secondary response to underlying feelings, ...

If we start with a Biblical and New Testament perspective, it’s hard to support the concept of righteous anger. To wit: “My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to ...

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 ...