Both prescriptive and reactive emotion norms exist for all 128 events. Norms center on a specfic emotion in about one-third of the events, and otherwise on a general affective tone. Both prescriptions and reactions occasionally cluster into conflicting norms regarding the expected emotion for an event. Prescriptive norms diverge from reactive norms in almost half of the events, though in only a few events do prescriptions require the opposite of people's emotional reactions. Prescriptive norms are the same for a woman and a man, except that a woman is expected to emote more intensely in some interactions.
Reactive norms vary by sex, however, in about one-fifth of the events.
On the whole, females are disposed to emote with somewhat more displeasure, arousal, and vulnerability than males. In this paper we investigate the structure of precedence relations in such groups, including whether these relations are dense, whether they are transitive, and whether they are structured in any obvious way by diffuse status characteristics. Each of these findings is contrary to assumptions contained in a formal participation model by Fisek, Berger, and Norman for which these authors reported strong empirical support. To investigate this apparent contradiction, we designed and carried out Monte Carlo simulations, creating simulated data with a known underlying structure, and applying Fiske et al.'s research methodology to our simulated evidence. Although the simulated data, by design, systematically violate Fisek et al.'s density and diffuse status assumptions, their model actually fits these data better than it fits the empirical Smith-Lovin data.