ABSTRACT
In the preceding discussion we have attempted to discover the normal relationship between dominance and compliance when these responses occur successively. We have now to discover the normal relationship between compliance and dominance when these emotions occur simultaneously. In the first place, there are certain logically conceivable simultaneous combinations of dominance and compliance which may be eliminated by brief consideration of the behaviour elements involved. Active compliance and active dominance, for example, may occur simultaneously as an emotional mixture but not as an emotional compound. When active dominance and active compliance, evoked by the same stimulus, take place simultaneously, they tend to cancel each other out, or at least, mutually to modify one another in such a way that the integrative description of the resultant emotional state would consist of a relationship between the motor self and the motor stimulus which would be half way between the nodal points, C and D as indicated on the emotion circle diagram (see Chapter IV).
