Review of The Psychology and Pedagogy of Anger

Abstract

Reviews the book, The Psychology and Pedagogy of Anger by Roy Franklin Richardson (1918). In this little book, Professor Richardson has summarized the results obtained from a dozen Clark University students, trained in introspection, who attempted to make full observations of their emotions for a period of three months. Their reports are classified under the following chapter headings: Mental Situations Stimulating Anger; Behavior of Consciousness; Disappearance of Anger; Conscious After-effects; and Educational Function. It is impossible to over-emphasize the motivating power of held-over anger attitudes in human conduct, and the teacher who knows how to arouse and guide anger aright is indeed wise. Each individual pupil must be studied, for where anger may prove an incentive to greater effort in one, it may be the source of discontent and a surly, mischievous attitude in another. If it can be roused against the proper obstacles, and sublimated into arduous labor, it becomes a vital factor in education. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)