Anger did not preclude high science talk: the most anger-expressing Red City student also had the group's highest science-talk proportion¶

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q2 i? Sofia had the highest proportion of anger talk in Red City (12.0%) while also having the highest proportion of science talk (84.2%). → Taehyun Kim 2025

Evidence¶

Taehyun Kim 2025¶

Taehyun Kim, Mike Tissenbaum. (2025). Understanding when anger becomes productive or destructive in collaborative educational games. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-025-09459-2

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Per-student turn-code percentages in Table 2 for Red City. The article states Sofia combined "the highest proportion of anger talk (12.0%)" with "the highest proportion of turns that included science talk in the group at 84.2%."

"in Red City, Sofia, who had the highest proportion of anger talk (12.0%), had the highest proportion of turns that included science talk in the group at 84.2%"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Individual anger trajectories rose alongside science talk until an inflection point, after which engagement dropped sharply
• Groups' anger-talk proportion was inversely related to science-talk proportion across two teams — related
• Anger in collaborative gameplay can drive students to link game mechanics to real-world phenomena to defend their strategies — related
• Anger-related science talk rose in parallel until an apparent tipping point in group dynamics — related