Resentful demoralization

Resentful demoralization

Resentful demoralization is an issue in controlled experiments in which those in the control group become resentful of not receiving the experimental treatment. They may become angry, depressed, uncooperative, or non-compliant. This may lead to significant systematic differences in the outcome of the control group, obscuring the results of the study and threatening their validity.

ee also

* Clinical trial
* randomized controlled trialIt does not necessarily involve the control group being resentful for the care received by the experimental group. The experimental group could be resentful of the control group, if the experimental group perceive its treatment as inferior.

External links

* [http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780470013199/esbs/article/bsa561/current/abstract Resentful Demoralization] in Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science. (subscription requires)


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