Hostility is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Because central serotonin may modulate aggression, we might expect selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to be effective in reducing hostility. Such effects have never been examined in individuals scoring high on hostility who are otherwise free from major Axis I psychopathology according to criteria in t...

When hospitaland surgeon-specific coronary artery bypass graft surgery death rates were first publicly released in 1991 in New York State, many clinicians reacted with anger and outright hostility.1 Over time, as more jurisdictions adopted the concept of public reporting of outcomes in the form of report cards, the view has shifted to gradual recognition and acceptance that cardiac report cards...

BACKGROUND People with acquired brain injury (ABI) often show increased anger and aggression. Anger has been linked to attributions of hostile intent. The more intentional and hostile the judgments of other's behaviours are, the angrier the responses tend to be. Some people with ABI tend to make harsher attributions than healthy controls (negative attribution bias). Poor perspective-taking may ...

Women's alcohol treatment usually includes anger management, predicated on the hypothesis that anger increases their drinking. Studies show strong association between anger and drinking but to date there is no laboratory support for this hypothesis. We examined effects of a "female-specific" anger provocation on young adult women's drinking behavior by randomly assigning 30 women (age 21-30) to...

The claim that listening to extreme music causes anger, and expressions of anger such as aggression and delinquency have yet to be substantiated using controlled experimental methods. In this study, 39 extreme music listeners aged 18-34 years were subjected to an anger induction, followed by random assignment to 10 min of listening to extreme music from their own playlist, or 10 min silence (co...

OBJECTIVES To determine if current validated psychometric evaluations could determine a difference in basic behavioural characteristics between surgical and medical specialties. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Two district general hospitals and one University teaching hospital in England, UK. PARTICIPANTS Internal medicine (16) and trauma and orthopaedic (20) consultants. MAIN OUT...