A Multi-Site Collaborative Study of the Hostile Priming Effect
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McCarthy, Randy, Gervais, Will, Aczel, Balazs, Al-Kire, Rosemary L., Aveyard, Mark, Marcella Baraldo, Silvia, Baruh, Lemi, Basch, Charlotte, Baumert, Anna, Behler, Anna, Bettencourt, Ann, Bitar, Adam, Bouxom, Hugo, Buck, Ashley, Cemalcilar, Zeynep, Chekroun, Peggy, Chen, Jacqueline M., del Fresno-Díaz, Ángel, Ducham, Alec, ..., Zogmaister, C.. 2021. "A Multi-Site Collaborative Study of the Hostile Priming Effect." Collabra: Psychology. 7 (1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.18738
| Article Title | A Multi-Site Collaborative Study of the Hostile Priming Effect |
|---|---|
| ERA Journal ID | 212116 |
| Article Category | Article |
| Authors | McCarthy, Randy, Gervais, Will, Aczel, Balazs, Al-Kire, Rosemary L., Aveyard, Mark, Marcella Baraldo, Silvia, Baruh, Lemi, Basch, Charlotte, Baumert, Anna, Behler, Anna, Bettencourt, Ann, Bitar, Adam, Bouxom, Hugo, Buck, Ashley, Cemalcilar, Zeynep, Chekroun, Peggy, Chen, Jacqueline M., del Fresno-Díaz, Ángel, Ducham, Alec, Edlund, John E., ElBassiouny, Amanda, Evans, Thomas Rhys, Ewell, Patrick J., Forscher, Patrick S., Fuglestad, Paul T., Hauck, Lauren, Hawk, Christopher E., Hermann, Anthony D., Hines, Bryon, Mukunzi, Irumva, Jordan, Lauren N., Joy-Gaba, Jennifer A., Haley, Catherine, Kačmár, Pavol, Murat, Murat, Körner, Robert, Kosaka, Muriel, Kovacs, Marton, Lair, Elicia C., Jean-Baptiste, Légal, Leighton, Dana C., Magee, Michael W., Markman, Keith, Martončik, Marcel, Müller, Martin, Norman, Jasmine B., Olsen, Jerome, Oyler, Danielle, Phills, Curtis E., Ribeiro, Gianni, Rohain, Alia, Sakaluk, John, Schütz, Astrid, Toribio-Flórez, Daniel, Tsang, Jo-Ann, Vezzoli, Michela, Williams, Caitlin, Willis, Guillermo B., Young, Jason and Zogmaister, C. |
| Journal Title | Collabra: Psychology |
| Journal Citation | 7 (1) |
| Number of Pages | 16 |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Place of Publication | United States |
| ISSN | 2474-7394 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.18738 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/7/1/18738/116070/A-Multi-Site-Collaborative-Study-of-the-Hostile |
| Abstract | In a now-classic study by Srull and Wyer (1979), people who were exposed to phrases with hostile content subsequently judged a man as being more hostile. And this “hostile priming effect” has had a significant influence on the field of social cognition over the subsequent decades. However, a recent multi-lab collaborative study (McCarthy et al., 2018) that closely followed the methods described by Srull and Wyer (1979) found a hostile priming effect that was nearly zero, which casts doubt on whether these methods reliably produce an effect. To address some limitations with McCarthy et al. (2018), the current multi-site collaborative study included data collected from 29 labs. Each lab conducted a close replication (total N = 2,123) and a conceptual replication (total N = 2,579) of Srull and Wyer’s methods. The hostile priming effect for both the close replication (d = 0.09, 95% CI [-0.04, 0.22], z = 1.34, p = .16) and the conceptual replication (d = 0.05, 95% CI [-0.04, 0.15], z = 1.15, p = .58) were not significantly different from zero and, if the true effects are non-zero, were smaller than what most labs could feasibly and routinely detect. Despite our best efforts to produce favorable conditions for the effect to emerge, we did not detect a hostile priming effect. We suggest that researchers should not invest more resources into trying to detect a hostile priming effect using methods like those described in Srull and Wyer (1979). |
| Keywords | Collaboration |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520505. Social psychology |
| Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
| Byline Affiliations | Northern Illinois University, United States |
| Brunel University, United Kingdom | |
| Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary | |
| Baylor University, United States | |
| American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates | |
| University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy | |
| Koc University, Turkey | |
| City University of New York, United States | |
| Technical University of Munich, Germany | |
| Virginia Commonwealth University, United States | |
| University of Missouri, United States | |
| Bradley University, United States | |
| University Paris Nanterre, France | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology, United States | |
| University of Utah, United States | |
| California Lutheran University, United States | |
| Coventry University, United Kingdom | |
| Kenyon College, United States | |
| Grenoble Alpes University, France | |
| University of North Florida, United States | |
| DigiPen Institute of Technology, United States | |
| Ohio University, United States | |
| Texas A&M University, United States | |
| University of Mississippi, United States | |
| Pavol Jozef Safarik University of Medicine in Kosice, Slovakia | |
| University of Bamberg, Germany | |
| Saint Joseph’s College-New York, United States | |
| University in Presov, Slovakia | |
| University of Vienna, Austria | |
| University of Queensland | |
| Western University, Canada | |
| University of Granada, Spain |
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