How to get yourself really worked up
The inner thoughts of angry people are usually littered with distortions, but two main features stand out.
Angry people are mind readers par excellence. They spend a great deal of time making assumptions about what other people are thinking, and the attributions they make often imply hostile intent, selfishness or neglect on the part of the other person.
On top of this angry people stay angry because they take everything personally: their beliefs tell them that the other person is out to get them, to cheat them, to ignore their feelings or hurt them in some way. They will use massively emotive language to give form to their thoughts. They then use selective perception to gather evidence to support their beliefs ...
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