Many Labs 4: Failure to replicate mortality salience effect with and without original author involvement

Richard Anthony Klein; Corey L. Cook; Charles R. Ebersole; Christine Anne Vitiello; Brian A. Nosek; Christopher R. Chartier; Cody D Christopherson; Samuel Clay; Brian Collisson; Jarret Crawford; Ryan Cromar; DeVere Vidamuerte; Gwendolyn Gardiner; Courtney Gosnell; Jon E. Grahe; Calvin Hall; Jennifer Alana Joy-Gaba; Angela M. Legg; Carmel Levitan; Anthony D Mancini; Dylan Manfredi; Jason Michael Miller; Gideon Nave; Liz Redford; Ilaria Schlitz; Kathleen Schmidt; Jeanine Skorinko; Daniel Storage; Trevor Swanson; Lyn van swol; Leigh Ann Vaughn; Kate A. Ratliff

doi:10.31234/osf.io/vef2c

Many Labs 4: Failure to replicate mortality salience effect with and without original author involvement

Richard Anthony Klein, Corey L. Cook, Charles R. Ebersole, Christine Anne Vitiello, Brian A. Nosek, Christopher R. Chartier, Cody D Christopherson, Samuel Clay, Brian Collisson, Jarret Crawford, Ryan Cromar, DeVere Vidamuerte, Gwendolyn Gardiner, Courtney Gosnell, Jon E. Grahe, Calvin Hall, Jennifer Alana Joy-Gaba, Angela M. Legg, Carmel Levitan, Anthony D ManciniDylan Manfredi, Jason Michael Miller, Gideon Nave, Liz Redford, Ilaria Schlitz, Kathleen Schmidt, Jeanine Skorinko, Daniel Storage, Trevor Swanson, Lyn van swol, Leigh Ann Vaughn, Kate A. Ratliff

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Interpreting a failure to replicate is complicated by the fact that the failure could be due to the original finding being a false positive, unrecognized moderating influences between the original and replication procedures, or faulty implementation of the procedures in the replication. One strategy to maximize replication quality is involving the original authors in study design. We (N = 21 Labs and N = 2,220 participants) experimentally tested whether original author involvement improved replicability of a classic finding from Terror Management Theory (Greenberg et al., 1994). Our results were non-diagnostic of whether original author involvement improves replicability because we were unable to replicate the finding under any conditions. This suggests that the original finding was either a false positive or the conditions necessary to obtain it are not yet understood or no longer exist.
Data, materials, analysis code, preregistration, and supplementary documents can be found on the OSF page: https://osf.io/8ccnw/

Original language	English
Publisher	PsyArXiv Preprints
Number of pages	30
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vef2c
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Klein, R. A., Cook, C. L., Ebersole, C. R., Vitiello, C. A., Nosek, B. A., Chartier, C. R., Christopherson, C. D., Clay, S., Collisson, B., Crawford, J., Cromar, R., Vidamuerte, D., Gardiner, G., Gosnell, C., Grahe, J. E., Hall, C., Joy-Gaba, J. A., Legg, A. M., Levitan, C., ... Ratliff, K. A. (2019). Many Labs 4: Failure to replicate mortality salience effect with and without original author involvement. PsyArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vef2c

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