Not so easy to spot: A failure to replicate the Macbeth Effect across three continents

This study, due for publication next year, comes at time when reformers in psychology are calling for more value to be placed on replication attempts and negative results. "By resisting the temptation … to bury our own non-significant findings with respect to the Macbeth Effect, we hope to have contributed a small part to the ongoing scientific process," Earp and his colleagues concluded._________________________________ Brian D. Earp, Jim A. C. Everett, Elizabeth N. Madva, and J. Kiley Hamlin (2014). Out, damned spot: Can the "Macbeth Effect" be replicated? Basic and Applied Social Psychology, In Press.-- Further reading --An unsuccessful conceptual replication of the Macbeth Effect was published in 2009 (pdf). Later, in 2011, another paper failed to replicate all four of Zhong and Liljenquist's studies, although the replications may have been underpowered. From the Digest archive: Your conscience really can be wiped clean. Feeling clean makes us harsher moral judges.Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
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