... in these conditions the participants were stressed and did not want to handle the person's angry reactions, because they didn't want the hassle of the added stress. Baron and Bell's study showed a curvilinear effect (where the relationship between heat and aggression both increase together but as it gets to a certain point the aggression decreases) between temperature and aggression which was predicted by the NAE theory saying that when temperature becomes very high an individual seeks to escape lowering aggression, but at lower temperatures the negative affect leads to aggression. This is also supported by Ransberger and Baron who had studied US archival records and found that the riots increased up to the temperature of 85F and then declined after this point. However Anderson did not agree with this theory of aggressive behaviour decreasing after extreme heat, he considered the effects of temperature on different forms of aggressive behaviour ...

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