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A new study has found that, when it comes to keeping the peace, it’s more important for wives than for their husbands to remain cool after a heated argument. The findings revealed the husbands’ emotional regulation had little or no bearing on long-term marital satisfaction. Lead author Lian Bloch and fellow researchers at Berkeley and Northwestern University analysed videotaped interaction of more than 80 middle-aged and older heterosexual couples, focusing on how they recovered from disagreements. Time and again they found that marriages where wives quickly calmed down during disputes were shown to be the happiest, both in the short and long run. Bloch said that emotions like anger and contempt can seem very threatening for couples. Results show that the link between the wives’ ability to control emotions and higher marital satisfaction was most evident when women used "constructive communication" to temper disagreements. The study has been published online in the journal Emotion. — ANI
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