Psychology and Pedagogy of AngerRichardson, Roy Franklin
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Psychology and Pedagogy of Anger
Richardson, Roy Franklin
Anger
There is a relation between the immediate after-period of anger and the
more remote one that is important. If anger is immediately followed by
such emotions as pity, shame, regret or fear, any positive tendency left
over in the remote after-period from the emotion itself is apparently
lacking. There is, however, a negative effect. The subject is immune to
re-experience the same emotion from the same emotional situation again,
but anger which has disappeared with unpleasant feelings may tend to
recur in a rather prolonged after-period and may finally settle into an
emotional disposition and mental attitude which play an important role
in behavior and later feelings. It seems to be true, that when anger
disappears consciously in such a manner that the subject is aware that
his wishes have not been satisfied and the disappearance is followed by
unpleasant feelings, the immediate after-period is rather barren as
compared with the out-cropping which appears in a more remote period
after the emotion. In anger, when sudden control is required, the
subject is forced to attend to something else or react contrary to the
emotional tendency to save himself a later humiliation. The immediate
after-period is usually one of unpleasantness and tension. Under such
circumstances, the tendency to recur again and again is characteristic
and if, in some later recurrence or expression through the imaginative
process, it does not end satisfactorily, it may settle down to an
emotional disposition and mental attitude.
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