In defense of the negative affect escape model of heat and aggression.

This article counters Anderson's interpretation of data allegedly inconsistent with the curvilinear negative affect escape model of temperature and aggression. Anderson suggests that archival studies support a rectilinear rather than curvilinear model as temperature increases from comfortable to hot and that inconsistencies surrounding curvilinearity lab studies should be resolved in favor of linearity. To the contrary, this article asserts that archival region and time period studies are inconsistent themselves, that most of them are inadequate for testing curvilinearity, and that some of them are consistent with curvilinearity