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  2. Rage (emotion) - Wikipedia

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    Rage can sometimes lead to a state of mind where the individuals experiencing it believe they can do, and often are capable of doing, things that may normally seem physically impossible. Those experiencing rage usually feel the effects of high adrenaline levels in the body. This increase in adrenal output raises the physical strength and ...

  3. Anger - Wikipedia

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    The Anger of Achilles, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo depicts the Greek hero attacking Agamemnon. Three types of anger are recognized by psychologists: [10] Hasty and sudden anger is connected to the impulse for self-preservation. It is shared by humans and other animals, and it occurs when the animal feels tormented or trapped.

  4. Sham rage - Wikipedia

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    Bouts of sham rage are never intentional in humans, but the body will show "changes in the internal organs and in the composition of the blood similar to those characteristic of human emotional behavior". [18] Although a person will express emotion during moments of sham rage, it does not indicate that the individual is actually feeling that ...

  5. Affect (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    It encompasses a wide range of emotional states and can be positive (e.g., happiness, joy, excitement) or negative (e.g., sadness, anger, fear, disgust). Affect is a fundamental aspect of human experience and plays a central role in many psychological theories and studies.

  6. Emotion - Wikipedia

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    Emotion is also studied in non-human animals in ethology, a branch of zoology which focuses on the scientific study of animal behavior. Ethology is a combination of laboratory and field science, with strong ties to ecology and evolution. Ethologists often study one type of behavior (for example, aggression) in a number of unrelated animals.

  7. Aggression - Wikipedia

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    Konrad Lorenz stated in his 1963 classic, On Aggression, that human behavior is shaped by four main, survival-seeking animal drives. Taken together, these drives—hunger, fear, reproduction, and aggression—achieve natural selection. [118] E. O. Wilson elaborated in On Human Nature that aggression is, typically, a means of gaining control ...

  8. Genetics of aggression - Wikipedia

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    Aggression is a multi-dimensional concept, but it can be generally defined as behavior that inflicts pain or harm on another. [ 2 ] The genetic-developmental theory states that individual differences in a continuous phenotype result from the action of a large number of genes , each exerting an effect that works with environmental factors to ...

  9. Emotions and culture - Wikipedia

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    Human neurology can explain some of the cross-cultural similarities in emotional phenomena, including certain physiological and behavioral changes. [5] [6] However, the way that emotions are expressed and understood varies across cultures. Though most people experience similar internal sensations, the way these are categorized and interpreted ...