So now I am in conflict, based on my personal experience venting reduces anger, but now some scientist with bell curve is saying my personal experience is wrong? What do?
Of course backing off and using more concrete language, you could describe the same thing as "using a tantrum to intimidate someone into submission." Something people rarely do with their social equals, so generally children, maybe spouses. A lot of men describe their outbursts as calming in this context. They're possibly right, if you focus very narrowly on their own experience of it.