John Gottman, Howard Markman, Cliff Notarius, The Topography of Marital Conflict: A Sequential Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Aug., 1977), pp. 461-477
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