Table Of ContentHashim Talib Hashim
Athanasios Alexiou Editors
The Psychology
of Anger
The Psychology of Anger
Hashim Talib Hashim • Athanasios Alexiou
Editors
The Psychology of Anger
Editors
Hashim Talib Hashim Athanasios Alexiou
College of Medicine Department of Science and Engineering
University of Baghdad Novel Global Community Educational
Baghdad, Iraq Foundation
Hebersham, NSW, Australia
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I want to dedicate this book to my family: my
great father (Talib Hashim Manea), my
great mother (Jawaher Mutar Mohammed),
my great grandmothers and for the souls of
my grandfathers.
I want to dedicate it to my younger brother,
my partner and supporter. The one who
always stands for me and pushes me to do
more: Ali Talib Hashim.
I want to dedicate to my brother: Mustafa
Talib Hashim. He is the one who never says
no to me, always goes with me wherever and
whenever I want. Also to his wife: Zainab
Ammar and his great daughter: Razan
Mustafa.
I want also to dedicate it to my only sister in
this world: Noor Al-huda Talib Hashim.
Wishing her all the best in her life and future.
Finally, to my little brothers: Mojtaba Talib
Hashim, Hussein Talib Hashim, Murtadha
Talib Hashim. Wishing them all the best and
a bright future.
Foreword
As it is very efficiently attributed in the book The Psychology of Anger, anger has
been a fundamental element of the human personality since ancient times. Everyone
can be angry. Often, this anger is a way of protecting from other primal emotions we
cannot manage, such as frustration, rejection, exhaustion, worry, and guilt (Bushman
et al., 1999). Although anger is not always associated with aggression, its effects on
the human body can be unpleasant.
The Psychology of Anger describes the origin and the causes of anger, describing
the classification of anger types according to American Psychological Association
(Calvert et al. 2017). The book offers the specialized professionals and the general
audience a systematic review of anger in the emotional cycle from the early BC
years and the Book of Rites to the latest Basic Emotion Theories that include anger
and rage (Izard, 2007; Rodriguez et al., 2014). The authors reveal the variety of
causes that can trigger this angry behavior and lead to the loss of the ability to self-
monitor and objectively observe the current personal and social environment. In
addition, they identify the neuroscience of anger and the brain regions controlling
emotions and alterations in normal behavior.
Covering a broad range of topics, The Psychology of Anger combines the histori-
cal, social, and philosophical inquiry of anger with the several risk behaviors which
may act as causes or causative to the development of severe health issues.
The Psychology of Anger must be recognized as a reference book for students,
medical doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and neuroscientists, offering a holistic
approach to the effective management of anger as a humanistic phenomenon inex-
tricably linked to human temperament.
Pre-Clinical Research Unit, King Fahd Medical Ghulam Md Ashraf
Research Center and Department of
Medical Laboratory Sciences,
Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences
King Abdulaziz University,
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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References
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self-fulfilling or self-defeating prophecies? J Pers Soc Psychol 76(3): 367–376
Calvert SL, et al (2017) The American Psychological Association Task Force assessment of violent
video games: science in the service of public interest. Am Psychol 72(2):126
Izard CE (2007) Basic emotions, natural kinds, emotion schemas, and a new paradigm. Perspect
Psychol Sci 2:260–280
Rodriguez L, Ramos F (2014) Development of computational models of emotions for autonomous
agents. Cogn Comput 6(3): 351
Preface
This book discusses about anger in psychology, its mechanisms, predisposing fac-
tors, precipitating factors, its impacts on the brain structure and function on one end
and human physical health on the other, and its prevention methods.
This is a research book which presents anger in a new, modern, and educational
way of writing. It presents a mathematical expression for the law (Angers’ laws) in
a way to understand the anger before it truly occurs and to control the anger and
prevent its occurrence.
This book describes anger from A to Z, how it develops, what makes it virulent,
and how to control it, and the most important aim of the book is how to predict it
before it happens.
The book is highly specialized in anger and anger’s manner, its differences
between people and races, its historical origin and theories that mostly described it,
and how they are aligned with modern psychology and neurosciences. Moreover,
the book described the predictive changes in brain and effects on the human body
that can be attributed to the anger and its sequels.
It is the first book that talks about anger in detail, and there is no book that talks
independently about this topic. It is—to our knowledge—the first book that vastly
focuses on all aspects of anger, emerging from the significant need to fill a defect in
the related resource map and incorporate meaningful updates regarding all aspects
of the anger theory and practice.
Baghdad, Iraq Hashim Talib Hashim
Hebersham, NSW, Australia Athanasios Alexiou
27 July 2022, Wednesday
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Acknowledgments
We want to thank those people who helped us during the journey of writing this book:
Mustafa Ahmed Muhson, Yehya Zia Tuama, Zanyar Qais, Ahmed Dhiya Sagban,
Shoaib Ahmed, Mohammed Yasir Essar, Christos Tsagkaris, Ali Mahdi Mansour,
Mojtaba Talib, Mohammed Qasim Mohammed, Ahed El Abed El Rassoul, Abbas
Kamil, Abbas Mutar, Mohammed Abbas, Fatima Abbas, Sarmed Kadhem, Zain AL
Saleh, Abdallah Reda, Nazmus Sakib Choudhary.
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