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 ...

Now *this* is a study we can relate to: 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 ...

We all want the same thing: to feel valued by someone else. This ancient survival truth has an enormous influence on everything we do. When we feel valued, we feel safer. Respect leads to value. Value ...

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 ...

Rage is an ugly emotion. And I feel it — a lot. I fear it too. I don’t like the way it makes it so easy for me to snap back with snarky remarks or the way I can’t hide it as it flashes across my face.

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 ...