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Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel’s (2008) Study 1
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Hans Rocha Ijzerman, Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Ivan Ropovik, University of Presov
  • Charles Ebersole, University of Virginia
  • Natasha D Tidwell, Fort Lewis College
  • Łukasz Markiewicz, Kozminski University
  • Tiago Jessé Souza de Lima, University of Brasília
  • Daniel Wolf, University of Bamberg
  • Sarah A Novak, Hofstra University
  • W. Matthew Collins, Nova Southeastern University
  • Madhavi Menon, Nova Southeastern University
  • Luana Elayne Cunha de Souza, University of Fortaleza
  • ‪Przemysław Sawicki‬, Kozminski University
  • Leanne Boucher, Nova Southeastern University
  • Michał Białek, University of Wroclaw
  • Katarzyna Idzikowska, Kozminski University
  • Timothy Razza, Nova Southeastern University
  • Sue Kraus, Fort Lewis College
  • Sophia Christin Weissgerber, University of Kassel
  • Gabriel Baník, University of Presov
  • Sabina Kołodziej, Kominski University
  • Peter Babincak, University of Presov
  • Astrid Schütz, University of Bamberg
  • R Weylin Sternglanz, Nova Southeastern University
  • Katarzyna Gawryluk, Kozminski University
  • Gavin Brent Sullivan, Coventry University
  • Chris R Day, Coventry University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Disciplines
Abstract/Excerpt

In a test of their global-/local-processing-style model, Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel (2008) found that people assimilate a primed concept (e.g., “aggressive”) into their social judgments after a global prime (e.g., they rate a person as being more aggressive than do people in a no-prime condition) but contrast their judgment away from the primed concept after a local prime (e.g., they rate the person as being less aggressive than do people in a no prime-condition). This effect was not replicated by Reinhard (2015) in the Reproducibility Project: Psychology. However, the authors of the original study noted that the replication could not provide a test of the moderation effect because priming did not occur. They suggested that the primes might have been insufficiently applicable and the scenarios insufficiently ambiguous to produce priming. In the current replication project, we used both Reinhard’s protocol and a revised protocol that was designed to increase the likelihood of priming, to test the original authors’ suggested explanation for why Reinhard did not observe the moderation effect. Teams from nine universities contributed to this project. We first conducted a pilot study (N = 530) and successfully selected ambiguous scenarios for each site. We then pilot-tested the aggression prime at five different sites (N = 363) and found that it did not successfully produce priming. In agreement with the first author of the original report, we replaced the prime with a task that successfully primed aggression (hostility) in a pilot study by McCarthy et al. (2018). In the final replication study (N = 1,460), we did not find moderation by protocol type, and judgment patterns in both protocols were inconsistent with the effects observed in the original study. We discuss these findings and possible explanations.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920916513
ORCID ID
0000-0001-5222-1233, 0000-0002-8607-2579, 0000-0003-4554-1559, 0000-0002-3345-5015, 0000-0001-7587-0869, 0000-0002-5062-5733, 0000-0002-0689-5285
Citation Information
Hans Rocha Ijzerman, Ivan Ropovik, Charles Ebersole, Natasha D Tidwell, et al.. "Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel’s (2008) Study 1" Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science Vol. 3 Iss. 3 (2020) p. 366 - 376 ISSN: 2515-2467
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/leanne-boucher/68/