文︰子慧
Anger解愤怒，是名词。例如：Anger is a dangerous emotion.（愤怒是种危险的情绪。）The man slapped his son in a fit of anger.（那男人一怒之下掌掴他的孩子。）It is unhealthy to be filled with anger all the time.（经常满腔怒火实在是不健康。）
Anger也用作动词，解使发怒。例如：Mary was angered by Peter’s indifference.（彼得爱理不理的态度令玛丽光火。）
Fury亦解愤怒，是比anger程度更剧烈的怒气，即wild or violent anger，狂怒。例如︰The customer stormed out of the restaurant in fury after being humiliated by the waiter.（那顾客被侍应侮辱，狂怒地冲出餐厅。）Furious是形容词︰The boss was furious that we have made a botch of the project.（我们把工作项目弄得一团糟，老板勃然大怒。）
另一个与愤怒有关的字是rage。Rage是violent uncontrollable anger，涉及暴力和行为失控的愤怒。被其他驾驶者激怒而情绪失控就叫road rage（路怒症）。不论是anger、fury或rage，都是负面情绪。令我们愤怒的情况可避则避，避不到就要学会管控。经常失控狂怒的人是有anger problem，而控制愤怒就是anger management。
乐在所感
愤怒也有些正面作用，所以有“化悲愤为力量”这一句。相信没有人会喜欢愤怒的感觉。但最近有研究却发现，有时发怒竟矛盾地会令人开心。
People are happier if they are able to feel emotions（情绪） they desire – even if those emotions are unpleasant（令人不快的）, such as anger and hatred（仇恨）, a study suggests. The results of the study, compiled by an international team of researchers, found happiness is “more than simply feeling pleasure and avoiding pain.”
首席研究员、Hebrew University of Jerusalem的Maya Tamir博士解释：”If you feel emotions you want to feel, even if they’re unpleasant, then you’re better off.”（让自己去感受想去感受的情绪，就算是不快的情绪，那也是较好的。）
研究亦有令人惊讶的发现：
Surprisingly, the study also found 11% of people wanted to feel less of positive emotions, such as love and empathy（感同身受、同理心）, while 10% of people wanted to feel more negative emotions, such as hatred and anger.
“怒”见不平
原来有一成左右的人竟希望感受较少正面情绪，亦有一成人想感受较多例如仇恨和愤怒等。Dr Tamir解释：”Someone who feels no anger when reading about child abuse（虐待儿童） might think they should be angrier about the plight（苦况） of abused children, so want to feel more anger than they actually do in that moment.”
原来不是自虐，而是希望自己看到不平事，如儿童受虐待的事件会感到愤慨。Gary Chapman的Anger: Handling a Powerful Emotion in a Healthy Way，教我们如何用健康的方法管控愤怒。
