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ArticleMemory & cognition2025

Where the 'bad' and the 'good' go: A multi-lab direct replication report of Casasanto (2009, Experiment 1).

Yuki Yamada, Jin Xue, Panpan Li, Susana Ruiz-Fernández, Asil Ali Özdoğru, Şahsenem Sarı, Sergio C Torres, José A Hinojosa, Pedro R Montoro, Bedoor AlShebli and 14 more

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Article in Memory & cognition, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Exploring Body-Specific Associations in Swipe Gestures: A Study on Hand Dominance and Emotional Valence.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors.

Yuki YamadaFaculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. yamadayuk@gmail.com.
Jin XueSchool of Foreign Languages, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
Panpan LiSchool of Foreign Studies, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.
Susana Ruiz-FernándezBTU Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany.
Asil Ali ÖzdoğruDepartment of Psychology, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Şahsenem SarıDepartment of Psychology, Üsküdar University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Sergio C TorresMultimodal Interaction Lab, Leibniz Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany.
José A HinojosaInstituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Pedro R MontoroDepartamento de Psicología Básica 1, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
Bedoor AlShebliSocial Science Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Aidos K BolatovSchool of Medicine, Astana Medical University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Grant J McGeechanCentre for Applied Psychological Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.
Mircea ZloteanuDepartment of Criminology, Politics, and Sociology, Kingston University London, London, UK.
Irene Razpurker-ApfeldDepartment of Behavioral Sciences, Zefat Academic College, Safed, Israel.
Adil SamekinM. Narikbayev KAZGUU University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Nurit Tal-OrDepartment of Communication, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Julian TejadaDepartment of Psychology, Federal University of Sergipe, São Christóvão, Brazil.
Raquel FreitagDepartment of Letters, Federal University of Sergipe, São Christóvão, Brazil.
Omid Khatin-ZadehSchool of Foreign Languages, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Hassan BanarueeUniversity of Education Weingarten, Weingarten, Germany.
Nicolas RobinFaculty of Sport Sciences, Université des Antilles, Pointe-à-Pitre, France.
Guillermo Briseño-SanchezDepartment of Statistics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany.
Carlos J Barrera-CausilFacultad de Ciencias Exactas y Aplicadas, Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia.
Fernando Marmolejo-RamosUniversity of South Australia Online, Adelaide, Australia.

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP18K12015Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP20H04581Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP21H03784Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP22K18263Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP24K21501
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Casasanto (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 351-367, 2009) conceptualised the body-specificity hypothesis by empirically finding that right-handed people tend to associate a positive valence with the right side and a negative valence with the left side, whilst left-handed people tend to associate a positive valence with the left side and negative valence with the right side. Thus, this was the first paper that showed a body-specific space-valence mapping. These highly influential findings led to a substantial body of research and follow-up studies, which could confirm the original findings on a conceptual level. However, direct replications of the original study are scarce. Against this backdrop and given the replication crisis in psychology, we conducted a direct replication of Casasanto's original study with 2,222 participants from 12 countries to examine the aforementioned effects in general and also in a cross-cultural comparison. Our results support Casasanto's findings that right-handed people associate the right side with positivity and the left side with negativity and vice versa for left-handers.

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Cross-Cultural ComparisonFunctional LateralitySpace PerceptionAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleYoung AdultBig team scienceBody-specificity hypothesisConceptual mappingEmbodied cognitionHandednessSocial cognitionSpace–valence association

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PMID39313589
PMCPMC12141115

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