Journal article
Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998)
M O’donnell, LD Nelson, E Ackermann, B Aczel, A Akhtar, S Aldrovandi, N Alshaif, R Andringa, M Aveyard, P Babincak, N Balatekin, SA Baldwin, G Banik, E Baskin, R Bell, O Bialobrzeska, AR Birt, WR Boot, SR Braithwaite, JC Briggs Show all
Perspectives on Psychological Science | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Published : 2018
Abstract
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 In two unpublished replications of this study designed to verify the appropriate testing procedures, Dijksterhuis, van Knippenberg, and Holland observed a smaller difference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 Repo..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the Association for Psychological Science and the Arnold Foundation, who provided funding to participating laboratories to defray the costs of running the study.