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If you want to know more you can check out this paper:
Bushman, B.J. (2002). Does Venting Anger Fee or Extinguish the Flame? Catharsis, Rumination, Distraction, Anger, and Aggressive Responding.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 724-731.
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Hey Sherman, there's a $25 charge to access that paper online ... can't you at least post the abstract, please?
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LOL. Go to his website. Do a google for Brad J. Bushman. Go to his homepage. Look at his selected articles. The article is in there among many others. You can download it for free.
Screw it. Here is his selected publications page. It is about 3/4ths of the way down.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/pubs.htm