“plays angry.” In 2016, a Rutgers sports psychologist named Mitch Abrams, who had worked with professional sports teams, decided to survey all of the research he could find about violence and aggression in sports and tie it all together in a position paper that, he hoped, would clarify the state of thinking on this issue. Abrams began by citing a number of studies that suggested that athletes who play angry do reap some benefits. “Anger can be an emotion of action as the physiological surge of the sympathetic nervous system can lend itself to an increase in strength, stamina, speed and a
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