So, do I think anger is a primary emotion or not? I don’t know. There are so many competing lists of “primary emotions,” I don’t know if it matters whether anger belongs on one of those lists. Here are the three things I do know from the work I’ve done over the past twenty-plus years: Anger often masks emotions that are more difficult to name and/or more difficult to own. Just as an indicator light in our car tells us to pull over and check things out, anger is a very effective emotional indicator light that tells us to pull over and check things out. Anger, in response to experiencing or
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