Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

It's 9 a.m. and your to-do list is a mile long. Before you tackle it, your partner criticizes you, and your teen greets you with an eye roll. Meanwhile, you see a news clip about war or politics that ...

The University of Maryland conduced research on computer rage and found that 20% of respondents admitted dropping a computer on the floor out of anger. We think the more accurate verb would be ...

Engaging in activities that are designed to blow off steam when you’re angry – like jogging or hitting a punching bag – probably isn’t going to be effective at reducing your anger, researchers have ...

Anger evolved in all mammals to motivate immediate survival defense, territorial dominance, and mating competition. But it reduces survivability when these motivations lead directly to fighting — even ...

Most of us would rather move through life feeling calm and joyful, so why do we get angry? Anger is an emotion, and emotions serve as a kind of personal GPS. They alert us to what is happening in our ...