Personality and aggressive behavior. A team of university psychologists conducted a...

Personality and aggressive behavior. A team of university psychologists conducted a review of studies that examined the relationship between personality and aggressive behavior (Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 132, 2006). One variable of interest was the difference between the aggressive behavior level of individuals in the study who scored high on a personality test and those who scored low on the test. This variable, standardized to be between -7 and 7, was called “effect size.” (A large positive effect size indicates that those who score high on the personality test are more aggressive than those who score low.) The researchers collected the effect sizes for a sample of n = 109 studies published in psychology journals. This data is saved in the PERAGGR file. A dot plot and summary statistics for effect size are shown in the MINITAB printouts at the bottom of the page. Of interest to the researchers is the true mean effect size μ for all psychological studies of personality and aggressive behavior.