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- Title
Evaluating expectations about negative emotional states of aggressive boys using Bayesian model selection.
- Authors
van de Schoot, Rens; Hoijtink, Herbert; Mulder, Joris; Van Aken, Marcel A G; de Castro, Bram Orobio; Meeus, Wim; Romeijn, Jan-Willem
- Abstract
Researchers often have expectations about the research outcomes in regard to inequality constraints between, e.g., group means. Consider the example of researchers who investigated the effects of inducing a negative emotional state in aggressive boys. It was expected that highly aggressive boys would, on average, score higher on aggressive responses toward other peers than moderately aggressive boys, who would in turn score higher than nonaggressive boys. In most cases, null hypothesis testing is used to evaluate such hypotheses. We show, however, that hypotheses formulated using inequality constraints between the group means are generally not evaluated properly. The wrong hypotheses are tested, i.e.. the null hypothesis that group means are equal. In this article, we propose an innovative solution to these above-mentioned issues using Bayesian model selection, which we illustrate using a case study.
- Publication
Developmental psychology, 2011, Vol 47, Issue 1, p203
- ISSN
1939-0599
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/a0020957