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This study investigated the emotional expression and physiological reactivity of husbands and wives as they discussed a salient interpersonal issue. Emotional behavior of speaker and listener was coded from videotapes with the Couples Interaction Scoring System (CISS). The results indicated that wives' speech was characterized by less neutral and more negative behavior compared to husbands' speech. Wives also reciprocated their husbands' positive and negative speech, while husbands did not reciprocate their wives' speech. Finally, husbands had a greater tendency to display skin potential responses to their wives' negative speech than did wives in response to their husbands' negative speech. The pattern of results was discussed in relation to sex-role stereotypes for expressive behavior and to discharge models of emotion.
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