ArticleJournal of experimental social psychology2021
Evidence against subliminal anchoring: Two close, highly powered, preregistered, and failed replication attempts.
Article in Journal of experimental social psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
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Abstract
•The only two published studies on subliminal anchoring report contradictory results.•In two replications of these studies we could not find any evidence for subliminal anchoring.•Replications were as close as possible and high data quality was ensured, for example by introducing new manipulation checks.•Both our studies feature entirely open materials and preregistration of all materials including the analysis scripts. OPEN SCIENCE BADGES: Please grant all three badges, Preregistration, Open Materials, and Open Data.
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