Groups' anger-talk proportion was inversely related to science-talk proportion across two teams¶

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q2 i? Green City had 36.6% of turns coded with anger and 58.6% with science talk, while Red City had 4.8% anger and 80.8% science talk, an inverse pattern. → 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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Discourse turn-count analysis of two focal groups (883 and 812 total turns). The article reports "323 instances, or 36.6%" anger turns in Green City versus "39 instances, or 4.8%" in Red City, and notes the accompanying science-talk proportions of 58.6% versus 80.8%.

"Green City had many more turns of talk coded with anger (323 instances, or 36.6%) than Red City (39 instances, or 4.8%)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Anger did not preclude high science talk: the most anger-expressing Red City student also had the group's highest science-talk proportion — related
• After a team's tilting episode, its conversation became dominated by anger and lost all game-action talk — related
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• Individual anger trajectories rose alongside science talk until an inflection point, after which engagement dropped sharply — related
• Anger in collaborative gameplay can drive students to link game mechanics to real-world phenomena to defend their strategies — related