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Working with Anger: Costs and Benefits, Repression, and the "Empty Boat"
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
How to Slow Down the Process of Anger
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There's a lot of research on what tends to lean people toward being dispositionally angry or away from it. People who struggle with anger tend to focus more on things that are outside of their individual control, which is sometimes referred to as an external locus of control. It's often people who struggle to see other perspectives because they view those different perspectives as threats to them rather than potential sources of learning. And then also people whoreg their emotions externally, trying to regulate emotions by controlling their environment, as opposed to looking inside of themselves as the primary source from which they can regulate their emotions. Anger is just an empty boat for me - but i think that really speaks to an idea of internal
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