Two studies explored the experience and consequences
of anger and dissatisfaction in response to failed service
encounters. Study 1 showed that anger and dissatisfaction
have an idiosyncratic experiential content, indicating that
they are qualitatively different emotions. As we predicted,
in recalled experiences of anger, customers had a feeling
that they would explode and that they were overtaken by
their emotions. Angry customers were thinking of violence
and how unfair the situation was. Whereas they felt
like letting themselves goand behaving aggressively, they
actually complained and said something nasty. They
wanted to get back at the organization and wanted to hurt
someone. In contrast, dissatisfied customers had a feeling
of unfulfillment, thought about what they had missed out
on, made a deliberate judgment of how to act, and wanted
to find out who or what was responsible for the event.