Anger Management News

June 13, 2025

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Losing a Parent May Increase Children's Risk of Being Bullied

May 7, 2025 — A new study surveyed 21,000 children in China and found that the association between parental bereavement and school bullying varied by sex of the child and deceased parent, age when the death occurred, and geographical area. Adolescents in rural ...

Spanking and Other Physical Discipline Lead to Exclusively Negative Outcomes for Children in Low And Middle-Income Countries

May 5, 2025 — Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional ...

Study Links Childhood Trauma to Increased Substance Use and Unexpected Effects on Heart Rate and Blood Pressure in Adolescents

Apr. 30, 2025 — Childhood trauma significantly increases the likelihood of engaging in harmful alcohol consumption, smoking and illicit drug use, by the age of ...

Fear of Rejection Influences How Children Conform to Peers

Apr. 4, 2025 — The fear of rejection -- familiar to many children and adults -- can significantly impact how kids behave in their peer groups, according to new ...

Violence Alters Human Genes for Generations, Researchers Discover

Feb. 27, 2025 — First study of its kind reveals epigenetic signatures of violence passesd to ...

Impacts of Workplace Bullying on Sleep Can Be 'Contagious' Between Partners

Feb. 21, 2025 — Workplace bullying affects not only the employee's sleep but their partner's too, according to new research published ...

Scratching Through the Negative Emotions

Feb. 7, 2025 — 'We feel sorry because we cry,' wrote philosopher and psychologist William James, 'angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble,' suggesting that emotional bodily responses like crying cause cognitive changes, such as feelings of sorrow. ...

Violence on TV: What Happens to Children Who Watch?

Jan. 20, 2025 — Boys exposed to violent screen content in the preschool years were more likely to become antisocial and violent themselves a decade later, in their mid-teens, a new study ...

Acoustic Sensors Find Frequent Gunfire on School Walking Routes

Jan. 6, 2025 — A new study used acoustic sensors that detect the sound of gunfire to show how often children in one Chicago neighborhood are exposed to gunshots while walking to and from school. Results showed that nearly two-thirds of schools in the Englewood ...

Risk of Domestic Abuse Increases Over Time for Those Exposed to Childhood Maltreatment

Jan. 6, 2025 — The risk of experiencing intimate partner violence may accumulate over time among people who experienced childhood maltreatment when they were younger, finds a new ...

How to Deal With Narcissists at Home and at Work

Dec. 19, 2024 — The best way to deal with narcissistic people in your personal life may be the hardest advice to take, according to an expert who has studied narcissism for more than 20 years. The best course of action is to identify narcissistic people early on ...

Researchers Use Fitness Tracker Data and Machine Learning to Detect Bipolar Disorder Mood Swings

Nov. 25, 2024 — Investigators evaluated whether data collected from a fitness tracker could be used to accurately detect mood episodes in people with bipolar ...

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New Therapy Reduces Reoffending in Male Offenders With Antisocial Personality Disorder

Feb. 18, 2025 — A new psychological therapy has been found to reduce rates of violence and aggression among male offenders with antisocial personality disorder ...

For Those With CTE, Family History of Mental Illness Tied to Aggression in Middle Age

Nov. 27, 2024 — People who have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) who have a family history of mental illness may have a higher risk of aggression in middle ...

National Poll: Some Parents Need Support Managing Children's Anger

Nov. 18, 2024 — Some parents may find it challenging to help their kids manage intense emotions. One in seven think their child gets angrier than peers of the same age and four in 10 say their child has experienced ...

Older Adults Appear Less Emotionally Affected by Heat

Oct. 15, 2024 — When the outside temperatures rise, people tend to lose their cool. That connection is well known, but a new study found that emotional responses to heat are highly individualized and only one factor ...

Managing Stress Could Be the Key to Helping Highly Impulsive People Act Rashly When Bored

Sep. 25, 2024 — Research has explored the relationship between high impulsivity and boredom, in an effort to find out what drives rash and sometimes unhealthy ...

Venting Your Frustrations Can Make Friends Like You Better -- If You Do It Right

Aug. 14, 2024 — Venting about your frustrations with one friend to another may feel good, but it doesn't necessarily reduce anger. Experiments showed that people who ...

Narcissism Decreases With Age

July 11, 2024 — People tend to become less narcissistic as they age from childhood through older adulthood. However, differences among individuals remain stable over time -- people who are more narcissistic than ...

Brain Regions That Bias the Brain's Response to Pleasure in Bipolar Disorder Identified

June 12, 2024 — Momentary shifts in mood, even those lasting just a matter of seconds, profoundly alter the brain's response to pleasurable experiences in people ...

Unravelling the Gendered Undertones of Narcissism

June 6, 2024 — Narcissistic tendencies are heavily shaped by our upbringing and are significant contributors to violence and bullying in adult relationships -- but the causes and outcomes are different for men and ...

After Being Insulted, Writing Down Your Feelings on Paper Then Getting Rid of It Reduces Anger

Apr. 9, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a simple, but effective, strategy to help people reduce their feelings of anger. Disposing of a piece of paper containing ...

Workplace Culture and Social Relationships Are Associated With Workplace Bullying

Oct. 22, 2024 — Workplace bullying poses a serious threat to employees' health and well-being. A study sheds new light on the impact of social relationships on workplace bullying. Focusing on the dynamics of ...

Dance, Dance Revolution: Research Shows Dance and Movement Therapy Can Increase Emotional and Social Intelligence in Middle School Students

Aug. 5, 2024 — An assistant clinical professor developed a specialized dance and movement therapy (DMT) program to meet the unique needs of youth from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to foster a sense of ...

Breathe, Don't Vent: Turning Down the Heat Is Key to Managing Anger

Mar. 18, 2024 — Venting about a source of anger might feel good in the moment, but it's not effective at reducing the rage, new research suggests. Instead, techniques often used to address stress -- deep ...

School Focus on Grades, Test Scores Linked to Violence Against Teachers

Feb. 23, 2024 — Violence against teachers is likely to be higher in schools that focus on grades and test scores than in schools that emphasize student learning, a new study has ...

Living in Violent Neighborhoods Affects Children's Brain Development

Feb. 22, 2024 — Living in neighborhoods with high levels of violence can affect children's development by changing the way that a part of the brain detects and responds to potential threats, potentially leading ...

Bullied Teens' Brains Show Chemical Change Associated With Psychosis

Feb. 6, 2024 — Researchers have found that adolescents being bullied by their peers are at greater risk of the early stages of psychotic episodes and in turn experience lower levels of a key neurotransmitter in a ...

New Study Reveals the Profound Impact of Forced Separation Between Humans and Their Pets

Jan. 28, 2024 — Pet owners forced to be separated from their animals in crisis situations, including those who are victims of domestic violence, are suffering from a lack of support services needed to protect ...

Do Violent Video Games Numb Us Towards Real Violence?

Jan. 16, 2024 — Neuroscientists have investigated whether playing violent video games leads to a reduction in human empathy. To do this, they had adult test subjects play a violent video game repeatedly over the ...

Sniffing Women's Tears Reduces Aggressive Behavior in Men, Researchers Report

Dec. 21, 2023 — New research shows that tears from women contain chemicals that block aggression in men. The study finds that sniffing tears leads to reduced brain activity related to aggression, which results is ...

Health Impacts of Abuse More Extensive Than Previously Thought, Research Says

Dec. 11, 2023 — Partners and children who are subject to domestic abuse are more likely to experience certain physical and mental health effects than previously thought, according to a new ...

Glial Tone of Aggression

Dec. 5, 2023 — While anger and aggression are instinctive behaviors found across many species, leaving these emotions unchecked can lead to conflict and violence. In a recent study, researchers demonstrated that ...

Fighting Fruit Flies Help Researchers Understand Why We Stay Angry

Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers are homing in on the neurons, circuits, and mechanisms responsible for persistent aggression in fruit ...

How Teachers Would Handle Student Violence Against Educators

Nov. 14, 2023 — For the first time, teachers in a nationwide study have told researchers what strategies they think work best to deal with student violence against educators. Teachers rated suspending or expelling ...

Want to Achieve Your Goals? Get Angry

Oct. 30, 2023 — While often perceived as a negative emotion, anger can also be a powerful motivator for people to achieve challenging goals in their lives, according to new ...

Childhood Trauma Linked to Headaches in Adulthood

Oct. 25, 2023 — People who have experienced traumatic events in childhood such as abuse, neglect or household dysfunction may be more likely to experience headache disorders as adults, according to a meta-analysis. ...

Children as Young as Four Eat More When Bored

Oct. 24, 2023 — A new study has shown that children as young as four years old eat 79% more calories when they are bored, compared to when they are in a neutral ...

Calls for Verbal Abuse of Children by Adults to Be Formally Recognized as Form of Child Maltreatment

Oct. 2, 2023 — A new systematic review has highlighted the importance of identifying childhood verbal abuse by adults as a standalone subtype of child maltreatment, to ensure targeted prevention and address the ...

Researcher Combats Bullying of Students With Disabilities

Aug. 30, 2023 — Students with disabilities are often bullied and socially excluded in school at a far greater rate than their classmates. To help teachers recognize, respond to and prevent bullying toward these ...

Heavy Drinking, Handgun-Carrying Linked Among Rural Youth

Aug. 23, 2023 — Alcohol use and subsequent handgun carrying were positively associated during adolescence and young adulthood among individuals who grew up in rural areas, similar to findings in urban areas. ...

Overuse of Social Media and Devices Top Parent Concerns as Kids Head Back to School

Aug. 21, 2023 — As children head back to school, two issues have climbed higher on their parents' list of concerns: the role of social media and the internet in kids' ...