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How to be Angry Better

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Evolution of Rage Triggers

In your book, you talk about this idea that some of our fast anger response might be a protection device for the people we should care about. And so this is why researchers who study aggression really try to look into the evolutionary aspects of these triggers. I'm a relationally trained therapist. Relational cultural theory is what i work from. It's not just like, well, i love my husband and i want you to leave him. No, i need my husband. He's part of my people, and we need each other. Human beings do need other human beings, and our survival depends on it.

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