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An Old Task in New Clothes: A Preregistered Direct Replication Attempt of Enclothed Cognition Effects on Stroop Performance
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Devin Michael Burns, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Elizabeth L. Fox
  • Michael Greenstein
  • Gayla R. Olbricht, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • DeMaris Montgomery
Abstract

Adam and Galinsky (2012) motivated their theory of enclothed cognition using experimental results showing that wearing a doctor's coat improved selective attention by reducing errors on incongruent Stroop trials. While many other studies have pursued extensions of this idea, there have been no published replications of this influence on the Stroop effect. This preregistered, direct replication attempt uses equivalence testing and the small telescopes framework from Simonsohn (2015) to argue that such an effect, if it exists, is too small to have been reliably detected under the original design. Theoretically predicted sequential effects as small as 7 ms were successfully detected at α =.05, indicating that the failure to find an effect of lab coat is likely not due to power limitations or poor experimental technique.

Department(s)
Psychological Science
Second Department
Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords and Phrases
  • Enclothed cognition,
  • Equivalence testing,
  • Replication,
  • Stroop
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2019 Academic Press Inc., All rights reserved.
Publication Date
7-1-2019
Publication Date
01 Jul 2019
Citation Information
Devin Michael Burns, Elizabeth L. Fox, Michael Greenstein, Gayla R. Olbricht, et al.. "An Old Task in New Clothes: A Preregistered Direct Replication Attempt of Enclothed Cognition Effects on Stroop Performance" Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Vol. 83 (2019) p. 150 - 156 ISSN: 0022-1031
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gayla-olbricht/54/