Does Venting Anger Feed or Extinguish the Flame? Catharsis, Rumination, Distraction, Anger, and Aggressive Responding

By Brad J. Bushman. 2002

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Psychological Entitlement: Interpersonal Consequences and Validation of a Self-Report Measure (2004, background): “There was also a handwritten comment stating “This is one of the worst essays I have read!” The other participants received favorable, positive evaluations consisting of high (positive) numerical ratings and a written comment, “No suggestions, great essay!” Previous research has shown that the negat”
Dealing with feeling: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of strategies derived from the process model of emotion regulation. (2012, background): “*Bushman, B. J. (2002). Does venting anger feed or extinguish the flame?”
Violent video games and real-world violence: Rhetoric versus data. (2014, background): “However, other researchers have found little evidence to suggest that venting one’s anger on a safe target actually reduces aggression (cf. Bushman, 2002).”
Ruminating on Rumination: are Rumination on Anger and Sadness Differentially Related to Aggression and Depressed Mood? (2010, unknown): “Anger rumination has been found to exacerbate angry mood (Bushman 2002; Rusting and Nolen-Hoeksema 1998) and is associated with aggression (Bushman et al. 2005; Collins and Bell 1997; Maxwell 2004).”
A Heuristic for Developing Transdiagnostic Models of Psychopathology (2011, background): “Although most of the work on rumination has focused on its effects on individuals with an elevated depressed mood, rumination appears to exacerbate whatever mood or theme is currently active in the individual (Blagden & Craske, 1996; Bushman, 2002; Bushman, Bonacci, Pedersen, Vasquez, & Miller, 2005”
WORK–FAMILY CONFLICT AND EMOTIONS: EFFECTS AT WORK AND AT HOME (2006, background): “Several of these dimensions concern the degree to which the event affects current goals or objectives (e.g., degree to which the event interferes with current goals and objectives, importance of the event to these goals and objectives, etc.). Therefore, one would expect the event to affect the domai”
Self-Distancing: Theory, Research, and Current Directions (2017, background): “engaging in physically violent behavior (Bushman, 2002; Bushman, Bonacci, Pedersen, Vasquez, & Miller, 2005).”
Emotion regulation and psychopathology: the role of gender. (2012, background): “In experimental studies , Bushman (2002) found that participants provoked into anger then induced to ruminate showed more aggressive behavior compared to participants who were provoked but then distracted.”