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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychophysiology. 2014 Mar 24;51(6):499–509. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12203

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Experimental timeline. Married individuals reported on their experienced levels of marital stress twice on average 9 years apart. Approximately 2 years following the second questionnaire data collection wave, participants came to the laboratory for an assessment of their spontaneous reactivity to and recovery from emotional images. Corrugator EMG activity, a measure sensitive to emotional valence, was recorded continuously throughout the experiment. Representative positive picture retrieved from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Love_and_happiness.jpg (by Ann Gordon from Detroit, US).