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stressor aftereffects

the residual effects that follow exposure to environmental stressors. Immediately after exposure to acute or chronic stressors (e.g., noise, crowding, traffic congestion, social conflict), individuals may manifest negative effects, such as reduced motivation to persist with a task or a decrease in altruistic behavior.

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Bartlett test for equality of variance

Bartlett test for equality of variance

a procedure used to determine whether variation across two or more groups is equivalent, this being a critical assumption in analysis of variance and many other parametric methods. The Bartlett test is sensitive to scores that are not from a normal distribution. [Maurice Stevenson Bartlett (1910–2002), British statistician]