Harvard Medical School psychologist Anna Precht analyzed the situation, and posited how Will Smith would reflect upon the incident in a different setting: "in a cooler, calmer moment, he would acknowledge that a joke is not actually a threat."[100] Booker Prize–winning author Bernardine Evaristo placed the incident within the larger context of African American winners of Academy Awards, and lamented that Will Smith chose violence instead of simply words to express himself.[101] In a collaborative academic analysis of the incident, Monash University professors Steven Zech, Beatriz Gallo Cordoba, Lucas Walsh, Matteo Bonotti, concluded: "Violence (also a form of incivility) is unacceptable, but civility, and when and how to enact it, is complicated.