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EDITOR ’ S PICK

When Motherhood Brings Rage

BY : Rebecca Eanes
“ A sequence of provocations .” That ’ s the term University of Alabama psychologist Dolf Zillmann uses when he describes how rage builds on rage . Zillmann discovered that the physiological effects of rage can last for days , and that “ a sequence of provocations ” can dramatically increase anger so that we end up reacting more and more quickly .
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