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Resentment (also called ranklement or bitterness) is a complex, multilayered emotion [1] that has been described as a mixture of disappointment, disgust and anger. [2] Other psychologists consider it a mood [3] or as a secondary emotion (including cognitive elements) that can be elicited in the face of insult or injury.
Robert C. Solomon places contempt on the same emotional continuum as resentment and anger, and he argues that the differences between the three are that resentment is anger directed towards a higher-status individual; anger is directed towards an equal-status individual; and contempt is anger directed towards a lower-status individual. [3 ...
Two main differences between the modern understanding and ancient understanding of anger can be detected, Kemp and Strongman state: one is that early philosophers were not concerned with possible harmful effects of the suppression of anger; the other is that, recently, studies of anger take the issue of gender differences into account. [9]
“Further, resentment and anger can build over the long term,” she adds. “As a parenting practice, research shows this can be particularly bad for children, leading to shame and difficulties ...
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Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, a longtime New York Times columnist, wrote about a change he’s seen in Americans over the past two decades as he published his final column in the newspaper. “What ...
Some languages do not differentiate between emotions that are considered to be the basic emotions in English. For instance, certain African languages have one word for both anger and sadness, and others for shame and fear. There is ethnographic evidence that even challenges the universality of the category "emotions" because certain cultures ...
Marc Lamont Hill talks about the difference between white anger and black anger. He asserts that the black anger is commonly perceived as a subhuman response as if there was something unusual ...