"We have a generation coming up where yelling is really not a very acceptable way of expressing yourself."

“For them, the value in anger and aggression has not yet been untied from toxic masculinity. I tell my patients that anger, like anxiety, can be a very important and useful emotion when harnessed correctly. Often, we get to the most onerous, blistering, radical truth about something when we’re angry. But, over all, there is a more reserved and muted sense of emotional expressivity... I think if you’re a young man in America, the notion that you’re going to yell in anger is hugely conflictual and no longer acceptable, and potentially will get you medicated.... I hear people being much more reflective. They’ve been raised on words like ‘inclusivity’ and ‘community’ and ‘organic.’ ”

Said the psychiatrist Drew Ramsey, quoted in "The Decline of Yelling" by Amanda Petrusich (at The New Yorker).

This is interesting to see this morning, because last night, live-blogging the Democratic candidates' debate, I wrote, "So much yelling and stress" (at 7:34 CT) and "May the yelling end soon. I am weary" (at 8:58 CT). To my ear, Bernie Sanders was nearly always yelling. Elizabeth Warren was often yelling. It really bothered me.

Petrusich brings up "The Primal Scream" — that 1970s book by Arthur Janov. It was a kind of psychotherapy. Yelling will help. Supposedly. But there's later research:

A 2015 paper published in Current Biology studied how screams—or any noise that results “from the bifurcation of regular phonation to a chaotic regime,” thereby making it “particularly difficult to predict and ignore”—occupy “a privileged acoustic niche,” neurologically distinct from other communication signals. It’s that niche—what scientists refer to as “roughness,” or a modulation rate between about thirty and a hundred and fifty hertz—that makes a scream... cut through all other stimuli, regardless of relative volume. Physically, it’s nearly impossible for a human being not to be deeply and instinctively alarmed by yelling....