A model that proposes that a wide variety of unpleasant feelings and experience of negative affect can lead to the development of angry feelings and display of emotional aggression. Negative affect activates ideas, memories and expressive-motor reactions associated with anger and aggression and rudimentary angry feelings. Subsequent thoughts involving attributions, appraisals and schematic conceptions can then intensify, suppress, enrich, or differentiate the initial reactions. Bodily reactions as well as emotion-relevant thoughts can activate the other components of the particular emotion network to which they are linked. Contrast with the frustration-aggression hypothesis.
A model that suggests that unpleasant sensations, stimulation, or situations (what is called aversive events) can lead to feelings of anger and potential aggression. In contrast with other models of anger, this model suggests that even when there is no direct insult or offense, the mere experience of discomforting stimuli (noises, bad smells, heat, hunger) can arouse negative emotions that then lead to anger and aggression. This happens because our brains automatically link physical discomfort to anger on an unconscious level.
