Heat wave causing a ‘rage wave’


  • Nation
  • Monday, 14 Mar 2005

THE heat wave sweeping the country is causing a “rage wave” that is making many people more aggressive and sexually abusive, according to psychology and human development scientist Dr Rozmi Ismail of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.  

Reporting this theory, Mingguan Malaysia quoted him as saying that there were studies linking rough behaviour, uncontrolled anger, impatience and impulsiveness to long periods of hot weather. 

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