Many traditional accounts of moral development posit that children actively construct moral beliefs by reasoning about the distress they directly perceive in the aftermath of harmful or unjust actions. However, these accounts cannot straightforwardly explain the development of moral beliefs about harmless but tabooed actions. For cases such as these, when no negative behavioral consequences are apparent, top-down socialization processes (e.g., verbal instruction or "testimony" from adults) may instead influence moral development, as well as emotional reactions such as disgust. The present research consists of four studies that empirically examine the mechanisms leading to the formation of moral values involving victimless actions. Seven-year-old children were recruited as participants in this research. They were shown pictures of anthropomorphic aliens engaged in novel body-focused or environment-focused actions, all of which were harmless. After being exposed to one of various experimental manipulations, children were asked to judge whether the depicted actions were "wrong" or "OK". It was hypothesized that participants would readily acquire new moral beliefs upon being exposed to each of the experimental manipulations that were employed, even though none invoked suffering or harm. Study 1 (N = 64) found that information about unnaturalness and the invocation of disgust each elevated moralization, and that their independent effects were compounded when these manipulations were presented jointly. Study 2 (N = 90) demonstrated that verbally presented testimony about disgust, but not the induced emotional experience of disgust, was an effective mechanism for moralization, particularly for children who were more disgust sensitive. Study 3 (N = 30) found that children responded to testimony about anger with similar patterns of moralization as when given testimony about disgust, but that anger-based testimony was especially effective for children who were more highly prone to anger. Study 4 (N = 28) found that children's moral beliefs were retained after a prolonged time delay. In sum, across four studies, children were found to rapidly form new moral beliefs about victimless actions, particularly upon exposure to emotionally laden testimony. Overall, this research demonstrates that children are susceptible to swiftly acquiring moral beliefs even in the absence of obvious adverse outcomes.

Readers of Homer’s Iliad immediately confront the anger of Achilles; the first word of the poem, μῆνις, forefronts the hero’s godlike wrath. Yet little attention has been paid to the important relationship that exists between Achilles’ anger and his grief. In this dissertation I identify language in the poem unique to Achilles, linking his grief for Patroklos with a longing, ποθή. The most important interpretive consequence of this link between ποθή and grief, I argue, is the proper understanding of the insatiable roots of his subsequent anger. Achilles experiences the death of Patroklos as a rending of the fabric of his life. In this state of restless volatility, we see that Achilles’ anger is one more response to an underlying experience of rupture and thus is both aimless and fruitless. Although Achilles succeeds in ensuring the future sack of Troy by killing Hektor, his behavior remains insatiate, since his deeds of anger are motivated by a desire for what cannot be achieved, life shared with Patroklos. The persistence of his attempted vengeance beyond the slaying of Hektor reveals the futility of his underlying longing, such that, according to the poem, the only end he can make of his grief-driven anger, finally, is to let it go. The Trojans’ grief for Hektor is never described with the language of longing, and this surprising exclusion underscores the contrast between Achilles and Hektor. Where Achilles has a uniquely independent status, Hektor is continuously tied to the city as a whole and part of a rich network of close relations. Rather than exploring the rupture of a single, highly personal relationship, perhaps typical of a warrior far from home many years, with Hektor’s death the poem depicts the impending destruction of an entire civilization. Thus every expression of grief for this warrior refers not only to personal loss but to the multiple relationships that will be impacted by his death. The Trojans’ grief for their defender cannot linger on the sense of rupture in the present, but rather their grief is shaped by a forward-looking sense of doom. / 2022-07-31T00:00:00Z

This dissertation investigates the exclusion of Moses from the Promised Land in Numbers and Deuteronomy. Why are there different reasons given for his exclusion in the two books? Can they be explained by the complex redactions of Deuteronomy? There are four different answers to the question of Moses’ exclusion. According to Deut 1-3, divine anger is directed at Moses because he is the leader of the first exodus generation on whom the wrath of God is visited. Moses is excluded because he should bear the same punishment as the first generation of Israelites who left Egypt. Another reason is given in Deut 4, a mixture of late layers in the Deuteronomistic History. Accordingly, Moses’ exclusion is compared to the destruction and scattering of the future generations of the Israelites who provoked God to anger. The “anger-punishment pattern” of Moses’ exclusion, which is a theme of divine anger in the Deuteronomistic History, is used to confess the sin of the Israelites. Thirdly, in the post-Priestly passages in Numbers and Deuteronomy, Moses is ordered to die because of the sin of failing to sanctify YHWH. The exclusion of Moses is a natural consequence of his death outside the Promised Land. Finally, Deut 31 and 34 imply that Moses has reached the limit of life span which was set by YHWH.

Os Transtornos Alimentares (TA) são caracterizados por graves perturbações no comportamento alimentar, geralmente de início precoce e curso duradouro. Vários fatores estão associados a sua etiologia, como fatores familiares, socioculturais, biológicos e psicológicos. Alguns autores demonstraram existir correlação entre gravidade nos comportamentos alimentares inadequados, baixos níveis de assertividade, altos níveis de hostilidade autodirigida e dificuldade em expressar a raiva. Além disso, a raiva tem sido relacionada principalmente aos episódios de compulsão alimentar e métodos compensatórios. A literatura, já há algum tempo reconhece o papel central do afeto negativo na etiologia e manutenção da compulsão alimentar. A teoria da regulação do afeto pressupõe que os episódios de compulsão alimentar estão associados a uma dificuldade para regular as emoções de forma adaptada, configurando-os como uma estratégia inadequada para aliviar sofrimento e reduzir afetos intensos. Pesquisadores indicam que um terço das mulheres com compulsão alimentar, comem em resposta a emoções negativas, mais especificamente a raiva, depressão e ansiedade. A compulsão alimentar teria como função regular a experiência emocional, reduzindo a consciência da emoção. A raiva também tem sido associada a déficits em habilidades sociais. A literatura sugere que os indivíduos socialmente habilidosos são mais propensos a manejar com a emoção da raiva do que aqueles com déficits em habilidades sociais e resolução de problemas, e que muitos dos tratamentos efetivos para raiva e comportamento agressivo incluem o desenvolvimento dessas habilidades. Assim como elevados níveis de raiva estão associados a comportamentos alimentares disfuncionais, evidências apontam para a relação entre déficits em habilidades sociais e gravidade do comportamento alimentar. A literatura mostra que no tratamento da raiva, o treinamento de habilidades sociais tem sido bastante efetivo. Dessa forma, identificar de que forma a raiva se relaciona ao comportamento alimentar inadequado , bem como aos déficits em habilidades sociais se torna relevante para a criação de programas de intervenção que tenham como objetivo ensinar o indivíduo a manejar com a raiva e frustração, aumentando assim, a capacidade de resolução de problemas e diminuindo a ocorrência de comportamentos alimentares inadequados. Portanto, o objetivo desse estudo é avaliar as relações entre habilidades sociais e a raiva em pacientes com Bulimia Nervosa e Transtorno da Compulsão Alimentar Periódica. Em função das críticas ao uso de questionários de auto-informe em pesquisas, essa tese foi dividida em três estudos. O primeiro foi uma revisão sistemática da literatura que teve como propósito avaliar as relações entre níveis disfuncionais de raiva e compulsão alimentar em pacientes com bulimia nervosa e TCAP. O segundo estudo avaliou as relações entre níveis de habilidades sociais, raiva disfuncional e gravidade da compulsão alimentar em amostra clínica, através de questionários de autorrelato. E por fim, o terceiro estudo teve como objetivo identificar pensamentos automáticos e comportamentos associados a emoção da raiva através de entrevista estruturada, composta por cinco questões abertas. Os resultados de cada estudo serão discutidos, assim como sua implicação no tratamento dos TA / Eating Disorders (ED) are characterized by severe disturbances in eating behavior, usually with early and lasting progress. Several factors are associated with the etiology, such as family, social, cultural, biological and psychological factors. Some authors have demonstrated correlation between severity in inappropriate eating behaviors, low levels of assertiveness, high levels of self-directed hostility and difficulty expressing anger. In addition, the anger has been mainly related to binge eating and compensatory methods. The literature, for some time now recognizes the central role of negative affect in the etiology and maintenance of binge eating. The theory of affection regulation assumes that binge eating episodes are associated with a failure to regulate adapted form of emotions, setting them to an inadequate strategy to alleviate suffering and reduce intense affections. Researchers indicate that one third of women with binge eating, eat in response to negative emotions, specifically anger, depression and anxiety. Binge eating would regular function emotional experience, reducing the thrill of consciousness. Anger has also been linked to deficits in social skills. The literature suggests that socially skilled individuals are more likely to manage with the emotion of anger than those with deficits in social skills and problem solving, and that many effective treatments for anger and aggressive behavior include the development of these skills. As well as high levels of anger are associated with dysfunctional eating behaviors, evidence points to the relationship between deficits in social skills and severity of eating behavior. The literature shows that the treatment of anger, social skills training has been very effective. This can be proven with research showing the moderating role of empathy about anger as well as the importance of assertiveness. Thus, to identify how anger is related to inappropriate eating behavior, and the deficits in social skills is relevant to the creation of intervention programs that aim to teach the individual to manage with anger and frustration, thus increasing , problem-solving ability and reducing the occurrence of inappropriate eating behaviors. Therefore, the aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between social skills and anger in patients with Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. Depending on the criticism of the use of self-report questionnaires in research, this thesis was divided into three studies. The first was a systematic literature review that aimed to assess the relationship between dysfunctional levels of anger and binge eating in patients with bulimia nervosa and BED. The second study evaluated the relationship between levels of social skills, dysfunctional anger and severity of binge eating in clinical sample using self-report questionnaires. Finally, the third study aimed to identify automatic thoughts and behaviors associated with emotion of anger through a structured interview, consisting of five open questions. The results of each study will be discussed, as well as their involvement in the treatment of ED

Os Transtornos Alimentares (TA) são caracterizados por graves perturbações no comportamento alimentar, geralmente de início precoce e curso duradouro. Vários fatores estão associados a sua etiologia, como fatores familiares, socioculturais, biológicos e psicológicos. Alguns autores demonstraram existir correlação entre gravidade nos comportamentos alimentares inadequados, baixos níveis de assertividade, altos níveis de hostilidade autodirigida e dificuldade em expressar a raiva. Além disso, a raiva tem sido relacionada principalmente aos episódios de compulsão alimentar e métodos compensatórios. A literatura, já há algum tempo reconhece o papel central do afeto negativo na etiologia e manutenção da compulsão alimentar. A teoria da regulação do afeto pressupõe que os episódios de compulsão alimentar estão associados a uma dificuldade para regular as emoções de forma adaptada, configurando-os como uma estratégia inadequada para aliviar sofrimento e reduzir afetos intensos. Pesquisadores indicam que um terço das mulheres com compulsão alimentar, comem em resposta a emoções negativas, mais especificamente a raiva, depressão e ansiedade. A compulsão alimentar teria como função regular a experiência emocional, reduzindo a consciência da emoção. A raiva também tem sido associada a déficits em habilidades sociais. A literatura sugere que os indivíduos socialmente habilidosos são mais propensos a manejar com a emoção da raiva do que aqueles com déficits em habilidades sociais e resolução de problemas, e que muitos dos tratamentos efetivos para raiva e comportamento agressivo incluem o desenvolvimento dessas habilidades. Assim como elevados níveis de raiva estão associados a comportamentos alimentares disfuncionais, evidências apontam para a relação entre déficits em habilidades sociais e gravidade do comportamento alimentar. A literatura mostra que no tratamento da raiva, o treinamento de habilidades sociais tem sido bastante efetivo. Dessa forma, identificar de que forma a raiva se relaciona ao comportamento alimentar inadequado , bem como aos déficits em habilidades sociais se torna relevante para a criação de programas de intervenção que tenham como objetivo ensinar o indivíduo a manejar com a raiva e frustração, aumentando assim, a capacidade de resolução de problemas e diminuindo a ocorrência de comportamentos alimentares inadequados. Portanto, o objetivo desse estudo é avaliar as relações entre habilidades sociais e a raiva em pacientes com Bulimia Nervosa e Transtorno da Compulsão Alimentar Periódica. Em função das críticas ao uso de questionários de auto-informe em pesquisas, essa tese foi dividida em três estudos. O primeiro foi uma revisão sistemática da literatura que teve como propósito avaliar as relações entre níveis disfuncionais de raiva e compulsão alimentar em pacientes com bulimia nervosa e TCAP. O segundo estudo avaliou as relações entre níveis de habilidades sociais, raiva disfuncional e gravidade da compulsão alimentar em amostra clínica, através de questionários de autorrelato. E por fim, o terceiro estudo teve como objetivo identificar pensamentos automáticos e comportamentos associados a emoção da raiva através de entrevista estruturada, composta por cinco questões abertas. Os resultados de cada estudo serão discutidos, assim como sua implicação no tratamento dos TA / Eating Disorders (ED) are characterized by severe disturbances in eating behavior, usually with early and lasting progress. Several factors are associated with the etiology, such as family, social, cultural, biological and psychological factors. Some authors have demonstrated correlation between severity in inappropriate eating behaviors, low levels of assertiveness, high levels of self-directed hostility and difficulty expressing anger. In addition, the anger has been mainly related to binge eating and compensatory methods. The literature, for some time now recognizes the central role of negative affect in the etiology and maintenance of binge eating. The theory of affection regulation assumes that binge eating episodes are associated with a failure to regulate adapted form of emotions, setting them to an inadequate strategy to alleviate suffering and reduce intense affections. Researchers indicate that one third of women with binge eating, eat in response to negative emotions, specifically anger, depression and anxiety. Binge eating would regular function emotional experience, reducing the thrill of consciousness. Anger has also been linked to deficits in social skills. The literature suggests that socially skilled individuals are more likely to manage with the emotion of anger than those with deficits in social skills and problem solving, and that many effective treatments for anger and aggressive behavior include the development of these skills. As well as high levels of anger are associated with dysfunctional eating behaviors, evidence points to the relationship between deficits in social skills and severity of eating behavior. The literature shows that the treatment of anger, social skills training has been very effective. This can be proven with research showing the moderating role of empathy about anger as well as the importance of assertiveness. Thus, to identify how anger is related to inappropriate eating behavior, and the deficits in social skills is relevant to the creation of intervention programs that aim to teach the individual to manage with anger and frustration, thus increasing , problem-solving ability and reducing the occurrence of inappropriate eating behaviors. Therefore, the aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between social skills and anger in patients with Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. Depending on the criticism of the use of self-report questionnaires in research, this thesis was divided into three studies. The first was a systematic literature review that aimed to assess the relationship between dysfunctional levels of anger and binge eating in patients with bulimia nervosa and BED. The second study evaluated the relationship between levels of social skills, dysfunctional anger and severity of binge eating in clinical sample using self-report questionnaires. Finally, the third study aimed to identify automatic thoughts and behaviors associated with emotion of anger through a structured interview, consisting of five open questions. The results of each study will be discussed, as well as their involvement in the treatment of ED

abstract: Previous research indicates that difficulties in emotion regulation and greater dissociation from one's emotions are often observed among trauma survivors. Further, trauma survivors often show greater negative emotions such as anger, and diminished positive emotions such as happiness. Relatively less is known about the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms, dissociation, emotion regulation difficulties, and non-trauma related emotional experiences in daily life. This study examined whether greater reports of posttraumatic stress symptoms, difficulties in emotion regulation, and dissociative tendencies were associated with greater intensity of anger and lower intensity of happiness during a relived emotions task (i.e., recalling and describing autobiographical memories evoking specific emotions). Participants were 50 individuals who had experienced a traumatic event and reported a range of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Participants rated how they felt while recalling specific emotional memories, as well as how they remembered feeling at the time of the event. Results showed that dissociative tendencies was the best predictor of greater intensity of anger and, contrary to the hypothesis, dissociative tendencies was predictive of greater happiness intensity as well. These findings are consistent with previous research indicating a paradoxical effect of heightened anger reactivity among individuals with dissociative tendencies. In addition, researchers have argued that individuals with a history of traumatization do not report lower positive emotional experiences. The present findings may suggest the use of dissociation as a mechanism to avoid certain trauma related emotions (e.g, fear and anxiety), in turn creating heightened experiences of other emotions such as anger and happiness. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Counseling Psychology 2013

Os acidentes de trânsito representam uma das principais causas de mortes violentas no Brasil e no mundo. O estado emocional do motorista é um importante aspecto da direção segura. A emoção raivosa é uma das causas dos acidentes, pois prejudica a percepção, a tomada de decisão e a psicomotricidade. O objetivo geral foi comparar a emoção raivosa de motoristas através de dois instrumentos. Participaram 400 motoristas de Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil. Houve cinco tipos de motoristas (todos com 80 participantes): (1) de automóvel, (2) de caminhão, (3) de motocicleta (4) de ônibus e (5) de táxi. Os instrumentos aplicados foram: (1) o STAXI (State Trait Anger Expression Inventory), composto por 44 itens e o (2) SRT (Situações de Raiva no Trânsito), composto por 20 itens. Foram estabelecidas seis hipóteses. O propósito da hipótese 1 foi verificar se nos motoristas existe correlação significativa entre a emoção raivosa, sentida na vida em geral, com a emoção raivosa sentida no contexto do trânsito. Nas outras cinco hipóteses compararam-se os índices médios de emoção raivosa entre: faixas etárias, homens versus mulheres, níveis de escolaridade, não infratores versus infratores e profissionais versus amadores. Os resultados demonstraram que: (1) os motoristas que apresentam menor emoção raivosa na vida em geral tendem a apresentar menor emoção raivosa quando dirigem, e vice-versa, (2) as médias de emoção raivosa foram significativamente mais baixas nos motoristas de mais idade, (3) não houve diferença significativa na emoção raivosa média de homens e mulheres que dirigem automóveis, (4) não houve diferença significativa na emoção raivosa dos cinco tipos de motoristas, quanto ao grau de escolaridade, (5) os motoristas não infratores apresentaram emoção raivosa média significativamente mais baixa que os motoristas infratores e (6) os motoristas amadores (automóvel) apresentaram emoção raivosa média significativamente mais alta que os motoristas profissionais de caminhão e de ônibus, e mais baixa do que motoristas de táxi e de motocicleta. Determinou-se uma ordem decrescente para as 20 situações de raiva no trânsito (SRT), da maior até a menor geradora de emoção raivosa (1ª a 20ª), para os motoristas em geral e para cada um dos cinco tipos de motoristas. Os resultados demonstraram que existem diferenças significativas nos níveis médios de emoção raivosa entre os cinco tipos de motoristas. Finalmente, os resultados sugeriram ser importante avaliar os níveis de emoção raivosa nos motoristas experientes e nos candidatos a motorista, quando esses realizam a Avaliação Psicológica, visto que a emoção raivosa pode ser uma importante causa de infrações e acidentes de trânsito. / Traffic accidents are one of the main causes of violent death in Brazil and in the World. The emotional state of the driver is important for safe driving. The emotion of anger is an important aspect of the causes of accidents, since it prejudices attention, decision making and psychomotor function. The general objective of this thesis was to compare the emotion of anger in drivers by way of two instruments. Four hundred drivers from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil took part in this survey and there were five types of driver (each with 80 participants): (1) car; (2) truck; (3) motorbike; (4) bus; and (5) taxi. The instruments applied to the 400 drivers were: (1) the STAXI (State Trait Anger Expression Inventory), composed of 44 items, and (2) TAS (Traffic Anger Situations), composed of 20 items. Six hypotheses were established. Hypothesis 1 proposed to verify the possibility of a significant correlation between the emotion of anger felt by the driver in his daily life and that felt in the traffic context. The other five hypotheses compared the mean indices of the emotion of anger between: age ranges, men versus women, scholastic levels, non-violators versus violators and professionals versus amateurs. The results showed that: (1) in general drivers showing less anger in their daily life tended to show less anger when driving and vice versa; (2) the means of the emotion of anger were significantly lower in older drivers; (3) there was no significant difference between the mean anger felt by men and women who drive cars; (4) there was no significant difference in the anger of emotion between the five types of driver with respect to scholastic level; (5) the non-violator drivers presented a mean emotion of anger significantly lower than that of violator drivers; and (6) amateur drivers (cars) showed a mean emotion of anger significantly higher than that of professional truck and bus drivers, but lower than that of taxi and motorbike drivers. A decreasing order for the 20 traffic anger situations (TAS) was determined, from the greatest to the least generator of the emotion of anger (1st to 20th) for drivers in general, and for each of the five types of driver. The results showed that there are significant differences in the mean levels of anger between the five types of driver. Finally the results suggest it is important to evaluate the levels of the emotion of anger in experienced drivers and in learner drivers when they carry out their Psychological Assessment, considering that the emotion of anger could be an important cause of traffic violations and accidents.

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Aggressive behaviour can be defined as actions that are believed and intended to cause harm to another individual that does not desire to be the target of such actions. Different situations can warrant aggressive behaviour, such as when an individual is posed with a threat. Aggressive behaviour is one of the ways individuals can deal with threats arising from their environments, and furthermore, aggressive behaviour can also be used to deal with social threats that arise from the interaction between two members of the same species. Aggressive behaviour is correlated with higher emotional arousal, and individuals that illustrate aggressive tendencies should be more sensitive to arousal when confronted with a social threat. This thesis acts upon this notion by hypothesizing that individuals who score higher on a tendency for aggression measurements should exhibit higher emotional arousal when exposed to a cue of social threat. Cues of social threats are thought to be induced by exposing the participant to either an angry face or a face with a high facial width to height ratio. The emotional response is measured with electroencephalography, more specifically looking at the late positive potential. No support for the hypothesis was found between high and low aggression groups. The facial width to height ratios proposed nature of being a cue of social threat becomes contested as the results were conflicting regarding the robustness of the facial width to height ratio’s effect. Even if there were no statistically significant differences found between the two groups, it might not be subject for dismissal as the sample population could be considered a low aggression population overall.