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In Most Studies of Attack Aggression, Competing Participants Get to Choose

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In most studies of attack aggression, competing participants get to choose how much shock to give the loser after they beat him or her in one round of a contest. Which of the following axioms seems to guide the behaviour of participants who have received escalating shocks from a programmed opponent?


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Midrange

A statistical measure that represents the halfway point between the smallest and largest values in a dataset.

Population Mean

The average of a set of characteristics or values within an entire population.

Midrange

The statistical measure calculated by adding the highest and lowest values in a dataset and then dividing by two, indicating the midpoint of the data range.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how much the data points differ from the average.

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