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construct.agreeableness correlates construct.counterproductive_work_behaviours

normal · weakly_informative · 3 studies · N = 14,534

Distribution

Storage scale (Fisher z)
Prior PDF · normalnormal distribution. Storage scale (Fisher z). 95% CI ≈ [-0.463, -0.144]; mean ≈ -0.303.-0.629-0.466-0.303-0.1410.0220z0density

mean ≈ -0.303 · 95% CI ≈ [-0.463, -0.144]

Reader scale (r)
Prior PDF · normalnormal distribution. Reader scale (r). 95% CI ≈ [-0.440, -0.149]; mean ≈ -0.294.-0.592-0.443-0.294-0.1460.00278r0density

mean ≈ -0.294 · 95% CI ≈ [-0.440, -0.149]

Weakly informative prior. This prior is weakly informative. It will nudge your posterior but won't overwhelm it; expect data to do most of the work in modest samples.

Intervals

Confidence interval (95%) — uncertainty about the mean ρ
[-0.43, -0.14]
Credibility interval (95%) — distribution of the true effect across settings (the Bayesian prior)
[-0.50, -0.06]
I² (heterogeneity) — share of total variance from between-study differences
96% — the contributing studies disagree almost completely; read the pooled value as a midpoint of conflicting findings, not as one population's effect

The true effect varies across settings — moderators likely matter.

SD_ρ>0 — true effect varies across settings; likely moderated (observed-score scale until artifact correction, PRN-058)

Evidence provenance

published ρ=-0.29 (k=3, high heterogeneity (I²=0.96)); no primary-deployment evidence yet

Sourceρ (r)Scope
Published literature-0.29k = 3 · N = 14,534

No primary-deployment evidence yet — this prior rests on published literature alone. As anonymized, aggregated effect sizes from real deployments are contributed, they appear here as a distinct, publication-bias-free source, fused with the literature into a posterior estimate.

Code

Drop this prior straight into your model. Snippets generated from the synthesized distribution + parameters.

target += normal_lpdf(beta | -0.30341, 0.0813537);
beta = pm.Normal("beta", mu=-0.30341, sigma=0.0813537)
brms::prior(normal(-0.30341, 0.0813537), class = "b")
# base R sample
rnorm(N, mean = -0.30341, sd = 0.0813537)
np.random.normal(loc=-0.30341, scale=0.0813537, size=N)

Parameters

FamilyParameters
normalI2 = 0.9602, mu = -0.3034, sigma = 0.08135, r_mean = -0.2944, k_studies = 3.000, tau_squared = 0.01579, fisher_z_bias = 0.04833, r_mean_bare_bones = -0.3428

Synthesis

Method
random_effects_meta
Informativeness
weakly_informative
Replication status
meta-analytic
k_studies
3
n_total
14,534
Last updated
2026-07-16T01:09:58.666Z

Quality distribution

GradeCount
A2
B1
C0
D0

Source articles

The research this prior is synthesized from — each is a full dossier (findings, the models it informs, and what the literature says).

Contributing effect sizes

Effect-size detail pages land with a later sub-ticket; for now, ids link to the filtered list. Browse all rows via /registry/effects.