Recall that hawkins and colleagues videotaped couples while they talked about relationship conflicts. later, the couples viewed the videotapes of their conversation and rated how much positive and negative emotion their partners expressed during the conversation. the researchers then compared these ratings with other ratings made by behavioral judges. results showed that
Hawkins, Carrere, and Gottman showed that more satisfied romantic partners overestimated how much positive affect their partner was showing compared with judges ratings, and they underestimated their partners negative emotion.
