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What too much anger does to you — and how to stop it. vox.com/culture CULTURE   Quick: What are you mad about? If someone asks me that question at literally any point in time, I could probably respond with a giant list of things, a list that would probably make me really, really angry the more I thought about it. I hate being angry, and yet, for someone whose job it is to be on the internet, I feel it all the time. Turns out that’s the case for a whole lot of us: A recent poll showed that twice as many Americans feel “extremely angry” compared to those who felt “extremely proud,” and the older they were, the angrier they were, too. Allie Volpe explores this conundrum of anger and what it’s doing to us in a [piece for Even Better](, along with helpful tips on how to stop allowing red hot feelings to curdle from something productive into something poisonous. —[Rebecca Jennings](//link.vox.com/click/37118663.8460/aHR0cHM6Ly94LmNvbS9tZWxpbmRhZmFrdWFkZT91ZWlkPTNhNTA3ZmY1ZmYzNzViYTNjYWU5MjFkMzUzMTNiN2Nk/6094319a7418d377a33af3d5C1332ad2f//link.vox.com/click/37118663.8460/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9hbGFubmE_dWVpZD0zYTUwN2ZmNWZmMzc1YmEzY2FlOTIxZDM1MzEzYjdjZA/6094319a7418d377a33af3d5Cdab5715d, senior correspondent P.S. Our friends at Eater just released their [very own app]( for iOS users. The Eater app cuts through the noise to show only the best restaurants in cities around the globe. It makes it easy to explore restaurants near you, search by cuisine or dish, and even book a table in just a few taps. [Download the app]( or [read more]( about it on Eater. What too much anger does to you — and how to stop it [An illustration of a growling wolf on orange and yellow background]( Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images Consider this: You’re driving home from the grocery store and another driver blatantly disregards a stop sign and juts out into oncoming traffic, cutting you off in the process. You narrowly miss rear-ending them and now your heart is racing, adrenaline pumping. So you lay on your horn and tailgate them, just to give them a taste of their own medicine. Or picture another scenario: It’s the end of a long workday and you’re scrolling through your social platform of choice and happen upon a post that is so ridiculous, so irresponsible, that you draft a response informing the original poster just how much of an idiot they are. Or maybe you’re patiently waiting in line at the world’s most crowded coffee shop and some entitled customer waltzes to the front of the queue — how dare they? — and you snap. In this world, there’s plenty to be enraged about if you know where to look. [Anger, righteous indignation, and outrage is quite literally everywhere.]( It’s in the air when passengers melt down; it’s online when digital brawls erupt in neighborhood discussion groups; it’s in once-sleepy school board meetings, where parents and administrators duke it out; it’s on the ballot when candidates make grievance the backbone of their campaigns. The rising social temperature isn’t going unnoticed. In a 2019 NPR-IBM Watson Health Poll, 84 percent of the 3,000 respondents thought Americans were angrier compared to a generation ago. This year, a McCourtney Institute for Democracy poll of 1,000 American adults revealed that twice as many felt extremely angry (46 percent) compared to those who felt extremely proud (22 percent). Baby boomers were the most likely to fall into the “extremely angry” category, with 57 percent of respondents claiming to feel enraged; 48 percent of Gen X, 38 percent of millennials, and 32 percent of Gen Z claimed to feel that level of anger. [While anger can be useful, it can also curdle into something wholly unproductive that has a slew of negative consequences](, including how you view the world and relate to those within it. But you don’t need to buy into the story your anger is telling you: It’s possible to learn where the line is between constructive and destructive anger — and how to walk away from it. [Read the full story »]( Trump impressions are mostly bad. The Apprentice pulls it off. In the new movie, Sebastian Stan’s Trump is built of grievance and gilding. [Read the full story »]( The new burnout generation Grind culture has come for the teens. 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