This post is in response to You Can't Punch Your Way Out of Anger By Art Markman Ph.D. Cognitive scientist Dr. Art Markman's recent posting on the nature of anger and catharsis raises significant ...

Venting when angry seems sensible. Conventional wisdom suggests expressing anger can help us quell it, like releasing steam from a pressure cooker. But this common metaphor is misleading, according to ...

A metaphor equates two things based on a commonality. If we say that Charlie is “crying wolf,” we mean that he shares certain features with the boy in Aesop’s fable. The context of the statement and ...