Fig. 9: Replication of the primary study.
From: Both partners’ negative emotion drives aggression during couples’ conflict
A follow-up to the original study replicated key findings. Specifically, a In the forced break condition, we observe a significant decrease in negative emotion from the time the winner is announced to the time the winner selects a blast level (10 s later). b Under conditions of high negative emotion, blast selections are lower in the forced break condition than the immediate response condition. c Negative expression from both players predicts higher blast level selections from the winner. d Players closely matched each other’s overall mean blast levels, suggesting retaliation as shown in the primary study. Defining Plot Elements. Grey shaded regions in regression plots represent standard errors. Boxplot features are as follows: centre line, median; upper and lower box boundaries, Inter Quartile Range (IQR); upper and lower whiskers, the smallest or largest value within 1.5x the corresponding IQR; dots, outliers.
