The politeness trap extends far beyond the workplace. Black children are punished more harshly in schools for “defiance,” ...

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.

Anger. It’s the emotion that goes with self-righteous indignation. It’s also the most “moralistic” of emotions, for it derives from your basic sense of fairness—or rather, unfairness. It’s ...

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 ...

“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 ...