A study of adolescents found that social anxiety weakens the association between irritability and bullying perpetration. In other words, highly irritable adolescents were more likely to bully ...

When a person feels irritable, small things that do not usually bother them can make them feel annoyed or agitated. The resulting tension can make a person more sensitive to stressful situations.

When a person is irritable, their stress hormones surge into action and they enter into a fight-or-flight mentality. Irritability can lead one to snap, bark, and chastise those around them.

According to scientists at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, feeling irritable may be a sign that you're suffering from more serious underlying conditions. In a study of more than 1,000 ...

How irritable are you? Take the test which shows whether you're grumpy or good-humoured Psychologists draw up revealing personality quiz which shows exactly how tetchy and ill-tempered you REALLY are ...

Originally published by Gretchen Rubin on LinkedIn: How to Cope with a Person Who's Irritable Most of the Time? Some Ideas At home and at work, the emotional state of the people around you matters ...

In 1849, Cumming1 said of the irritable bowel syndrome, “The bowels are at one time constipated, another lax, in the same person. How the disease has two such different symptoms I do not profess ...