Right but I think their def is not robust or close enough. Anger is based on activating you to focus on someone or something hurting you or causing danger for you
I would just make the general comment, in response to reading the various exchanges in this thread, that there is a lot of theory around this stuff, and yes there are studies that support some of it, but these theories are by no means something that should be taken as ‘fact.’ To the extent you find them useful in navigating the terrain they attempt to map, great, but I would avoid getting locked into these ideas in figuring out how to deal with emotions (your own or others) in real life.
Right but I think their def is not robust or close enough. Anger is based on activating you to focus on someone or something hurting you or causing danger for you
Anger is regarded as a secondary emotion.
There’s no universal explanation for what provokes anger in a person, it’s generally underlying, unprocessed feelings unique to the individual.
Was it meant by that, like does it constitutionally require a primary emotion and what are those?
I would just make the general comment, in response to reading the various exchanges in this thread, that there is a lot of theory around this stuff, and yes there are studies that support some of it, but these theories are by no means something that should be taken as ‘fact.’ To the extent you find them useful in navigating the terrain they attempt to map, great, but I would avoid getting locked into these ideas in figuring out how to deal with emotions (your own or others) in real life.