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A team of researchers is interested in the way children's self-esteem changes during puberty and how it relates to parental warmth. They are particularly interested in how self-esteem changes within individuals over time. They recruit a sample of 50 11-year-olds and plan to examine them for the next 6 years.
-Which of the following would be evidence that this research study was not well-motivated by past literature?

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The fact that the researchers are interested in how self-esteem changes during puberty and how it relates to parental warmth indicates that there is some past literature suggesting that self-esteem does indeed change during puberty and may be related to parental warmth. Therefore, options A and B can be ruled out. Option C is also not relevant to the research question, as the focus is on how self-esteem changes during puberty, not the reverse. However, if there was a well-established body of literature that found no evidence of self-esteem changing during puberty, it would call into question the motivation for the current study. Therefore, option D is the best choice.

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