Anger Management

Full link at www.livescience.com Anger is Good For You PITTSBURGH – Anger is good for you, as long as you keep it below a boil, according to new psychology research based on face reading. Go ahead, get angry So in maddening situations in which anger or indignation are justified, anger is not a bad idea, the thinking goes. In fact, it's adaptive, Lerner says, and it's a healthier response than fear. Chronic, explosive anger or a hostile outlook on the world is still bad for you, contributing to heart disease and high blood pressure, research shows. The new research supports the idea that humans have more than one uniform response to stress and that fear and anger provoke different responses from our nervous systems and the parts of our brain, such as the pituitary, that deal with tough situations. The results were published in a recent issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry