As noted in the first post in this series on the emotions, Robert Trivers (1971) identified moralistic aggression, a.k.a. righteous anger, as one of the human adaptations that once helped to “regulate ...

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.” The quote from the 1976 movie Network is prophetic. Ratings are abysmal and someone needs to do something to salvage the network. The veteran ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disguised personalities wearing brown bags on heads show different emotions Image by Studio RomanticShutterstock For much of my ...

I am writing in response to the letter submitted by Mr. Amburgy regarding the actions outside of Planned Parenthood that he thought were distasteful. Were we shouting? Were we not letting the ...

Lexi McKee-Hemenway leads a march across the University of South Dakota campus in protest of the recent Supreme Court decision that triggered an abortion ban in the state. About 50 students came with ...

One might not be tempted to call anger the most open-minded of the deadly sins; it strikes one more as the most pig-headed and self-righteous of the seven. However, recent work by Maia Young of UCLA ...

This morning I attended a presentation by one of the great social justice heroes of our time. Ruth Messinger, the president of the American Jewish World Service, spoke at Temple Israel of her ...

Should a blind person be permitted to carry a gun in public? That’s the focus of a court battle currently underway in Iowa. Advocates for extending the “conceal and carry” law to include blind ...

Why more believers need the courage to get angry at sin. As a young woman, Sarah Sumner never allowed herself to be angry, until her parents divorced when she was 22. The experience was one ...