Fig. 2: Illustration of the aggression eliciting effects expected from our face-to-face CRTT.
From: Both partners’ negative emotion drives aggression during couples’ conflict
According to the I3 Model and Perfect Storm theory. In the last round (i-1), a player loses, is faced with their partner’s negative emotions, and is blasted with a loud, unpleasant sound. In the next round they win (i): having been instigated by their last loss, they are impelled toward aggression by their own negative emotions, their partner’s negative emotions, and the fact they won the round. Finally, the task demands of the paradigm, along with a sense of justified retaliation for previous blasts and latent trait factors, act to disinhibit participants. Theoretical models predict that this environment should produce aggression, resulting in high negative emotional expression and high blast level selections.
