The intensity of anger: What differentiates anger from fury?

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Abstract

Understanding the behavioral and cognitive outcomes of discrete emotions has held the interest of scholars in the social sciences for decades. Anger, in particular, has generated interest given its perplexing outcomes. This paper presents a series of three studies that help identify the antecedents of various intensity levels of anger. Results indicate that there are 13 general themes that cause anger and there is a distinguishable pattern in the themes that lead to intense anger.

Authors

• Monique Turner, University of Maryland

• Christine Skubisz, University of Maryland

• Shuo Yao, Radford University

• Qi Wang, Villanova University

• Xiaoying Xie, University of Maryland