••Feeling like you are going to explode.••Being unable to stop tears.
••Wanting to hit someone, bang the wall, throw something, blow up.
••Wanting to hurt someone.
••Other:  
expressions and a ctions of anger
••Physically or verbally attacking.
••Making aggressive or threatening gestures.
••Pounding, throwing things, breaking things.
••Walking heavily, stomping, slamming doors.
••Walking out.
••Using a loud, quarrelsome, or sarcastic voice.
••Using obscenities or swearing.
••Criticizing or complaining.••Clenching your hands or fists.
••Frowning, not smiling, mean expression.
••Brooding or withdrawing from others.
••Crying.
••Grinning.
••A red or flushed face.
••Other:  
aftereffects of anger
••Narrowing of attention.
••Attending only to the situation that’s making you angry.
••Ruminating about the situation making you angry or about situations in the past.••Imagining future situations that will make you angry.
••Depersonalization, dissociative experiences, numbness.
••Other:  
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Note.  Adapted from Table 3 in Shaver, P., Schwartz, J., Kirson, D., & O’Connor, C. (1987). Emotion knowledge: Further exploration of a proto -
type approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52 (6), 1061–1086. Copyright 1987 by the American Psychological Association. 
Adapted by permission.