CRITICISM as an instinctive reaction to the performance of poetry is as old as song,” writes George Kennedy in beginning theCambridge History of Literary Criticism, and Kenneth Dover reminds readers of the Frogs that “in pre-literate cultures the composition of songs is a process in which discussion and criticism, often passionate, play an important part—and inevitably so, because aesthetic rea...

SUMMARY This paper exposits and develops Bayesian methods of model criticism and robustness analysis. The objectives are to clarify the Bayesian interpretation of non-Bayesian diagnostic tests, and provide explicitly Bayesian procedures accessible to practical investigators. Speciic methods for prior density criticism and robustness analysis, and data density criticism, are presented. All are b...

Based on self-determination theory (SDT), we examined mediational models connecting autonomy support and self-criticism to negative affect (NA), positive (PA), goal progress (GP) via autonomous controlled motivation. Separate measures were obtained within eight domains (e.g., academic performance intimate relationships) for 346 university students. Multilevel structural equation modeling was us...