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The Fatal Flaw with Anger Management Programs

Harvard Business Review

It turns out that adults are, in this respect, not much different from toddlers: Push a kid to do something, and he''ll resist. Psychologist Leon Festinger, working in the mid-1950''s, began the formal study of how we come to feel what we feel in what is known as cognitive dissonance research.