Women, anger, and aggression an interpretative phenomenological analysis

This study reports a qualitative phenomenological investigation of anger and anger-related aggression in the context of the lives of individual women. Semistructured interviews with five women are analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. This inductive approach aims to capture the richness and complexity of the lived experience of emotional life. In particular, it draws attention to the context-dependent and relational dimension of angry feelings and aggressive behavior. Three analytic themes are presented here: the subjective experience of anger, which includes the perceptual confusion and bodily change felt by the women when angry, crying, and the presence of multiple emotions; the forms and contexts of aggression, paying particular attention to the range of aggressive strategies used; and anger as moral judgment, in particular perceptions of injustice and unfairness. The authors conclude by examining the analytic observations in light of phenomenological thinking

An event-related potential study on the early processing of crying faces

Crying is an attachment behavior, which in course of evolution had survival value. This study examined the characteristics of the face-sensitive N170, and focused on whether crying expressions evoked different early event-related potential waveforms than other facial expressions. Twenty-five participants viewed photographs of six facial expressions, including crying, and performed an implicit processing task. All stimuli evoked the N170, but the facial expression modulated this component in terms of latency and amplitude to some extent. The event-related potential correlates for crying faces differed mostly from those for neutral and fear faces. The results suggest that facial expressions are processed automatically and rapidly. The strong behavioral and emotional responses to crying appear not to be reflected in the early brain processes of face recognition