On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:40 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Mike P wrote: >> "One wonders how often "over the top emotional expression" >> is genuinely authentic and how oftern they are for the effect >> on others, a manipulation used to elicit emotional responses >> of sympathy, support, or hate...." > > I understand what you mean...but isn't all anger manipulative?
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I can think of anger as occurring in at least two different ways: (1) As a genuine response to a situation (e.g., seeing pictures of people killed in a genocide) and (2) as a communicative device to others to indicate what one is experiencing (e.g., long ago when I did some work with mildly retarded adults, one form that anger took was hand biting, usually the palm upraised and teeth in the base of the thumb). I don't know how (1) above can be considered manipulative (one would need to know the larger context to decide this), and (2) could be manipulative if the person expressing the anger knows they will get a specific response (e.g., attention). Expressing anger which results in the person getting a beatdown as a result (any survivors of Catholic boys high school out there?) may be manipulative if one enjoys receiving the beatdown but that is a particular type of kink. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=3382 or send a blank email to leave-3382-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
