The same social slight can make one person anxious, another irritated, and a third so angry they react with their fists. No one is quite sure why some people are fearful when provoked and others become angry, but what is certain is that some types of people are likely to be angrier than others. For a start, men are angrier than women. Within each sex, physically strong men are angrier than weaker men, and beautiful women are angrier than less attractive women. In fact, strength accounts for about 20 per cent of the variance in male anger, according to Aaron Sell of Griffith University, Queensland, Australia [Human Nature, vol 23, p 30).
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