After a team's tilting episode, its conversation became dominated by anger and lost all game-action talk¶

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q2 i? In Green City's fourth segment, total turns dropped to 160, no action-talk events occurred, and 76.9% of conversations included anger. → 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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Segment-by-segment turn-code counts (Table 3) for Green City after Paul's tilting behavior in the third/fourth segments. The codes show "there were not any action talk events" and "76.9% of their conversations incorporated anger" in the fourth segment.

"In the fourth segment, where the total event counts plummeted, there were not any action talk events. In fact, 76.9% of their conversations incorporated anger, indicating that the majority of student interactions were fraught with expressions of anger."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• Groups' anger-talk proportion was inversely related to science-talk proportion across two teams — related
• Individual anger trajectories rose alongside science talk until an inflection point, after which engagement dropped sharply — related