Of Anger

Angry People See Guns

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703673604575550071622397954.html

... suggesting that anger may increase your perception that the world is threatening.

Anger may influence your belief about how likely it is that things in the world are threatening. The idea is that if you think the world is more threatening, you might see more threats in your environment than there really are.

And, the study suggests that the effect of anger is mostly on people's snap judgments.

Unfortunately, when you are angry, you often act on the basis of your initial judgments.

I'm thinking about this mid-term congressional election, where more than 50% of people are angry, and the politicians act "angry" at each other, and at the Federal government.