Issue 1: Identifying Conditions That Affect How Hostile Emotions Are Expressed
Considerable research suggests that people follow the action tendency to attack when experiencing hostile emotions. Although contempt and disgust may be difficult to express constructively, other hostile emotions, such as anger and jealousy, can be expressed in a positive manner that focuses on sharing feelings and solving problems.
Gottman’s (1994) research shows that emotional flooding is one condition that prevents people from responding to hostile emotions productively. EVT suggests that people are also unlikely to express hostile emotions in a constructive manner if they consider the behavior that prompted that emotion to be a negative violation of expectancies. However, EVT, along with the IM (Rusbult et al., 1994), specifies that people may resist the urge to retaliate when experiencing hostile emotions if the relationship is rewarding enough. The IM also suggests that people will be less quick to respond aggressively if they have invested a lot into a relationship or if they have poor quality alternatives. The extent to which these relationship factors can prevent emotional flooding and curb relational responses is unknown. Thus, scholars could benefit from better understanding the associations between relationship characteristics and the experience and expression of hostile emotions during conflict.
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