Wrath or anger, usually associated with violence, violent reaction, or acting out. Anger is an emotion related to one's psychological interpretation of having been offended, wronged or denied and a tendency to react through retaliation. perceived provocation. Raymond Novaco of UC Irvine, who since 1975 has published a plethora of literature on the subject, stratified anger into three modalities: cognitive, somatic-affective and behavioral