What is the link between aggression and anger and violence?
Well, let me start with the difference between the terms. There are major differences between concepts of aggression and anger and violence. Aggression is basically a drive that all of us need, basically to get out of bed in the morning, to go out in the world and do the things we need to do and overcome the obstacles that are there. A first grader in school needs to be aggressive to leave home to go to first grade. I need to be aggressive to be able to speak with you today and tape this particular show. Everyone needs to be aggressive, otherwise nothing would happen in society. So there’s nothing wrong with healthy aggression and assertion. However, anger is not aggression, anger is an affect or a feeling that people have that everyone experiences and again it’s important for people to be able to feel angry. Violence, however, is a behavior that people choose sometimes when they don’t know how to be appropriately aggressive or assertive or when they start to feel anger. Violent behavi
