Registered replication report: Dijksterhuis and Van Knippenberg (1998)

O'Donnell, M.; Nelson, L.D.; Ackermann, E.; Aczel, B.; Akhtar, A.; Aldrovandi, S.; ... ; Zrubka, M. (2018)

Article / Letter to editor

Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998) reported that participants primed with a category associated with intelligence (“professor”) subsequently performed 13% better on a trivia test than participants primed with a category associated with a lack of intelligence (“soccer hooligans”). In two unpublished replications of this study designed to verify the appropriate testing procedures, Dijksterhuis, van Knippenberg, and Holland observed a smaller difference between conditions (2%–3%) as well as a gender difference: Men showed the effect (9.3% and 7.6%), but women did not (0.3% and −0.3%). The procedure used in those replications served as the basis for this multilab Registered Replication Report. A total of 40 laboratories collected data for this project, and 23 of these laboratories met all inclusion criteria. Here we report the meta-analytic results for those 23 direct replications (total N = 4,493), which tested whether performance on a 30-item general-knowledge trivia task differed between these two priming conditions (results of supplementary analyses of the data from all 40 labs, N = 6,454, are also reported). We observed no overall difference in trivia performance between participants primed with the “professor” category and those primed with the “hooligan” category (0.14%) and no moderation by gender.

• All authors: O'Donnell, M.; Nelson, L.D.; Ackermann, E.; Aczel, B.; Akhtar, A.; Aldrovandi, S.; Alshaif, N.; Andringa, R.; Aveyard, M.; Babincak, P.; Balatekin, N.; Baldwin, S.A.; Banik, G.; Baskin, E.; Bell, R.; Białobrzeska, O.; Birt, A.R.; Boot, W.R.; Braithwaite, S.R.; Briggs, J.C.; Buchner, A.; Budd, D.; Budzik, K.; Bullens, L.; Bulley, R.L.; Cannon, P.R.; Cantarero, K.; Cesario, J.; Chambers, S.; Chartier, C.R.; Chekroun, P.; Chong, C.; Cleeremans, A.; Coary, S.P.; Coulthard, J.; Cramwinckel, F.M.; Denson, T.F.; Díaz-Lago, M.; DiDonato, T.E.; Drummond, A.; Eberlen, J.; Ebersbach, T.; Edlund, J.E.; Finnigan, K.M.; Fisher, J.; Frankowska, N.; García-Sánchez, E.; Golom, F.D.; Graves, A.J.; Greenberg, K.; Hanioti, M.; Hansen, H.A.; Harder, J.A.; Harrell, E.R.; Hartanto, A.; Inzlicht, M.; Johnson, D.J.; Karpinski, A.; Keller, V.N.; Klein, O.; Koppel, L.; Krahmer, E.; Lantian, A.; Larson, M.J.; Légal, J.B.; Lucas, R.E.; Lynott, D.; Magaldino, C.M.; Massar, K.; McBee, M.T.; McLatchie, N.; Melia, N.; Mensink, M.C.; Mieth, L.; Moore-Berg, S.; Neeser, G.; Newell, B.R.; Noordewier, M.K.; Özdoğru, A.A.; Pantazi, M.; Parzuchowski, M.; Peters, K.; Philipp, M.C.; Pollmann, M.M.H.; Rentzelas, P.; Rodríguez-Bailón, R.; Röer, J.P.; Ropovik, I.; Roque, N.A.; Rueda, C.; Rutjens, B.T.; Sackett, K.; Salamon, J.; Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á.; Saunders, B.; Schaafsma, J.; Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M.; Shanks, D.R.; Sherman, M.F.; Steele, K.M.; Steffens, N.K.; Sun, J.; Susa, K.J.; Szaszi, B.; Szollosi, A.; Tamayo, R.M.; Tinghög, G.; Tong, Y.Y.; Tweten, C.; Vadillo, M.A.; Valcarcel, D.; Van der Linden, N.; Van Elk, M.; Van Harreveld, F.; Västfjäll, D.; Vazire, S.; Verduyn, P.; Williams, M.N.; Willis, G.B.; Wood, S.E.; Yang, C.; Zerhouni, O.; Zheng, R.; Zrubka, M.
• Date: 2018-02-21
• Journal: Perspectives on Psychological Science
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 268 - 294
• DOI: doi:10.1177/1745691618755704