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Indifference does not raise its voice. Answer the words and you get an argument about whether they care. Answer the caring underneath and you often get the real thing. Something quiet like saying it clearly mattered to you lands better than any challenge to the claim.
man prays for harm, just as he prays for good: man is ever hasty (Quran 17:11). What someone asks for in haste is not always what they want.
الإسراء
وَيَدۡعُ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ بِٱلشَّرِّ دُعَآءَهُۥ بِٱلۡخَيۡرِۖ وَكَانَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ عَجُولࣰ ا
Yet man prays for harm, just as he prays for good: man is ever hasty
Qur’an 17:11read it in the library
Translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Experimental work comparing negative states found that regret, guilt, shame, anger and sadness are experienced as genuinely distinct, with different appraisals sitting behind them. The word a person reaches for in the moment is a rough guide at best to the state they are actually in. These were controlled comparisons of emotional experience rather than studies of angry speech, so treat it as background for listening carefully.
van Tilburg WA, Igou ER. (2017). Boredom begs to differ: Differentiation from other negative emotions.. Emotion (Washington, D.C.) doi
Strength of evidence: one line of research. A single study, or a theoretical account.
Naming the stake someone is hiding relieves them of having to defend the denial.
Some of what you will hear about anger is solid, and some is a teacher's own theory delivered with the same confidence. It is fair to ask which one you are getting.
Here is an odd one: anger is often a way of avoiding conflict. Saying what you actually need is exposing, negotiating is hard work, and losing your temper ends the conversation.
Anger is something you feel. Aggression is something you do. Keeping those apart is what makes the rest of this possible.