[__ Science __ ] Why Do We Get Frustrated?

[HeIsRisen2018]

The reason that I'm posting this question in here is because I actually figure that there's a scientific reason for it. A lot of the time I find myself grunting and growling and wanting to pull my hair out over something that I can't control. Like if the Internet is having issues, or if I see something on the news that I don't like and I was wondering why that was.

 

[Not_Now.Soon]

This sounds like a question in psychology (study of the mind) or about neurology (study of the brain). Possibly also sociology too (study of groups of people).

However, I think any of those studies and fields of study would help explain how we get frustrated more then why we get frustrated. So I don't know if why we get frustrated has a good means of study, because people get frustrated over different things. That would make it difficult to gather answers for why one person gets frustrated that can also be true for the same reasons why someone else also gets frustrated.
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Looking at the question of frustration from a practical perspective (based on our own observations), instead of a scientific perspective (something to test and experiment), my thought for why we get frustrated is because things don't go as we planned or expected and we weren't prepared for them.

After that though I don't think it's science of why, as much as a matter experience, attitude, and how you were raised or trained to handle situations that account for why some people get frustrated more easily, and others are better at rolling with the punches.

 

[daninthelionsden]

I think we get frustrated simply because we can't see the big picture. We only see that our immediate wants/needs aren't being met so we do a mental/sometimes physical temper tantrum.
I was speeding on the freeway in Houston one morning after the graveyard shift. I wasn't speeding badly but I was moving through traffic and jockeying for position and got hung up because of heavy traffic merging in from a busy on-ramp. At first I got angry, but immediately accepted the situation and even waved in a car to get in front of me. I didn't realize that I was being shadowed by a cop the whole time and most likely was about to be pulled over had I not relented and became a courteous driver. He sat on my bumper after that then went on his way..........Moral of story? Don't get so frustrated.....it just might be for your own good.