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Rage Reflex
A concept coined by Darwin that reflects the aggressive (fight) nature of all animals as a means of survival.
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Seville Statement
A statement drafted in Seville, Spain, endorsing the belief that aggression is neither genetically nor biologically determined in human beings.
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Emotional Literacy
A term used in reference to one's ability express oneself in an emotionally healthy way. Someone who routinely goes ballistic would be said to lack emotional literacy.
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Catharsis
Emotional release through crying, yelling, laughing, and the like.
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Somatizers
People exhibiting an anger style by suppressing rather than expressing feelings of anger. Soma means body, and when anger is suppressed, unresolved anger issues appear as symptoms of disease and illness.
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Self-punishers
People exhibiting a mismanaged-anger style by denying a proper outlet of anger, replacing it with guilt. Self-punishers punish themselves by excessive eating, exercise, sleeping, cutting, or even shopping.
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Exploders
People exhibiting a mismanaged-anger style by exploding and intimidating others as a means to control them.
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Underhanders
People exhibiting a mismanaged anger style by seeking revenge and retaliation. This passive-aggressive anger style is a means to control others, but in a very subtle way.
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Passive-Aggressive
A mismanged-anger style (see Underhanders) in which people seek revenge, while at the same time fronting a smile.
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Conditioned response
A response learned over time to a particular (negative) situation, such as displaying caution or apprehension about something perceived as stressful.
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Rational
A term to mean useful, as in rational fear of poisonous snakes
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Irrational
An overwhelming feeling of anxiety based on a false perception.
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Unwarranted Fear
Similar to an irrational fear, an instance when anxiety overcomes one's thoughts based on a nonphysical threat to one's existence.
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Fear of failure
Anxious feelings of not meeting your own expectations.
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Jonah complex
A term coined by Abraham Maslow to illustrate the fear of not maximizing one's potential.
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Fear of rejection
Anxious feelings of not meeting the expectations of others.
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Fear of the unknown
Anxious feelings about uncertainty about future events.
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Misoneism
A term coined by Carl Jung to explain the fear or hatred of anything new (fear of the unknown).
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Fear of death
Anxious feelings about death and the dying process.
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Fear of isolation
Anxious feelings of being left alone.
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Fear of the loss of self-dominance
Anxious feelings of losing control of your life.
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Behavior Therapy
A therapy based on the work of John B. Watson, in which coping and relaxation techniques are used to desensitize oneself to stress.
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Systematic desensitization
A process of learning to destress from something in small, manageable stages.
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Exposure desensitization
A process of learning to destress from something by brief, yet safe, encounters with the stressor
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Depression
A state of mind where thoughts are clouded by feelings of despair. Physiologists suggest that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance; psychologists suggest that depression is the result of unresolved stress emotions (anger turned inward).
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Curmudegons
a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person.
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