We sometimes confuse anger and aggression but we are talking about two very different things. The term aggression refers to things that you do — your behaviour, such as hitting someone or shouting at them. Anger, on the other hand, is an experience and it has two components: emotional and cognitive.
The emotional component is the irritation, annoyance, rage or fury that can overwhelm us and sometimes is referred to as red mist coming down. It is accepted that this extreme form of anger can blind our normal good sense and lead us into doing things (such as violence or aggression) that we otherwise would not doing. dream of
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