Priming of social distance? Failure to replicate effects on social and food judgments.
Williams and Bargh (2008) reported an experiment in which participants were simply asked to plot a single pair of points on a piece of graph paper, with the coordinates provided by the experimenter specifying a pair of points that lay at one of three different distances (close, intermediate, or far,...
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| description | Williams and Bargh (2008) reported an experiment in which participants were simply asked to plot a single pair of points on a piece of graph paper, with the coordinates provided by the experimenter specifying a pair of points that lay at one of three different distances (close, intermediate, or far, relative to the range available on the graph paper). The participants who had graphed a more distant pair reported themselves as being significantly less close to members of their own family than did those who had plotted a more closely-situated pair. In another experiment, people's estimates of the caloric content of different foods were reportedly altered by the same type of spatial distance priming. Direct replications of both results were attempted, with precautions to ensure that the experimenter did not know what condition the participant was assigned to. The results showed no hint of the priming effects reported by Williams and Bargh (2008). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e8e46da29cce40e8a55999b5cda66f5d2022-12-22T02:54:04ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0178e4251010.1371/journal.pone.0042510Priming of social distance? Failure to replicate effects on social and food judgments.Harold PashlerNoriko CoburnChristine R HarrisWilliams and Bargh (2008) reported an experiment in which participants were simply asked to plot a single pair of points on a piece of graph paper, with the coordinates provided by the experimenter specifying a pair of points that lay at one of three different distances (close, intermediate, or far, relative to the range available on the graph paper). The participants who had graphed a more distant pair reported themselves as being significantly less close to members of their own family than did those who had plotted a more closely-situated pair. In another experiment, people's estimates of the caloric content of different foods were reportedly altered by the same type of spatial distance priming. Direct replications of both results were attempted, with precautions to ensure that the experimenter did not know what condition the participant was assigned to. The results showed no hint of the priming effects reported by Williams and Bargh (2008).http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3430642?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Harold Pashler Noriko Coburn Christine R Harris Priming of social distance? Failure to replicate effects on social and food judgments. PLoS ONE |
| title | Priming of social distance? Failure to replicate effects on social and food judgments. |
| title_full | Priming of social distance? Failure to replicate effects on social and food judgments. |
| title_fullStr | Priming of social distance? Failure to replicate effects on social and food judgments. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Priming of social distance? Failure to replicate effects on social and food judgments. |
| title_short | Priming of social distance? Failure to replicate effects on social and food judgments. |
| title_sort | priming of social distance failure to replicate effects on social and food judgments |
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