Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Department of Communication and Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Aggress Behav. 2019 Jul;45(4):389-396. doi: 10.1002/ab.21829. Epub 2019 Mar 13.
Laboratory measures play an important role in the study of aggression because they allow researchers to make causal inferences. However, these measures have also been criticized. In particular, the competitive reaction time task (CRTT) has been criticized for allowing aggression to be operationalized in multiple ways, leaving it susceptible to "p-hacking." This article describes the development of the CRTT and the ways in which its paradigm flexibility and analytic flexibility allows it to test a wide range of hypotheses and research questions. This flexibility gives the CRTT significant scientific utility, but as with any research paradigm, comes with the obligation that it has to be used with integrity. Although safeguards exist and there is little evidence of misuse, study preregistration can increase confidence in CRTT findings. The importance of findings such as those of Hyatt et al. (in press), which provide further evidence for the validity of the CRTT, are also noted.
实验室测量在攻击性研究中起着重要作用，因为它们使研究人员能够进行因果推断。然而，这些措施也受到了批评。特别是，竞争反应时间任务（CRTT）因允许以多种方式操作攻击性而受到批评，这使得它容易受到“p-hacking”的影响。本文描述了 CRTT 的发展，以及其范式灵活性和分析灵活性允许它测试广泛的假设和研究问题的方式。这种灵活性使 CRTT 具有重要的科学实用性，但与任何研究范式一样，它也有义务诚实地使用。尽管存在保障措施，而且几乎没有证据表明存在滥用行为，但研究预先登记可以增加对 CRTT 发现的信心。还指出了像 Hyatt 等人的研究的重要性（即将出版），这些研究进一步证明了 CRTT 的有效性。
