Recently a post on a friend’s blog spurred my interest in the two opposites… Love and Hate… Love is something that has had attention from everybody… be it motivational speakers to the stockbrokers and even scientists but something that has not been probed enough is Hate…

While googling hate as an emotion I came across couple of good articles and the one that specifically stands out deals primarily on Hate and is by a psychologist and a researcher Christopher Burris…

The general consensus is that hate is an emotion, but Burris argues that hate is a motive. Burris says a motive provides focus directed toward the attainment of a particular goal.

Burris offers analysis of road rage, movie scenes (e.g., Kathy Bates’ character in the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery), to illustrate various subtypes of hate.

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