Intimacy, power and control: A brief report on the interpretation of Dutton and Browning's videotape studies of wife assault.

Discusses the contributions and limitations of D. G. Dutton's and J. J. Browning's (1988) videotape studies of wife assault. These studies demonstrate that batterers are most sensitive to scenes of emotional abandonment. It is suggested, however, that these findings should be interpreted with an awareness that the videotape manipulations are not necessarily representative of the whole class of possible stimulus manipulations. More confidence in the conclusions may be derived from replication of the intimacy findings across a range of topics. Improved manipulation of the dominance variable is also advised. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)