Development of prosocial, individualistic, and competitive orientations: Theory and preliminary evidence

Paul A. M. Van Lange, Ellen M. N. De Bruin, Wilma Otten, Jeffrey A. Joireman

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1997. DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.73.4.733

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 3 replications of this study. Recorded outcomes: 2 failed, 1 mixed.

Social value orientation and attachment: a replication and extension of Van Langeet al. (1997), IJzerman & Denissen (2019). Outcome recorded: failed. we failed to replicate the effect. View paper
The development of social value orientation: Attachment styles, number of siblings, age, and a comparison of measures, Liu et al. (2022). Outcome recorded: mixed. we replicated earlier findings that prosociality was associated with a greater level of secure attachment and a lower level of avoidant attachment. Moreover, prosociality was positively related to the number of siblings, especially sisters, as discovered by Study 3 of the original study. However, we View paper
Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings, Klein et al. (2018). Outcome recorded: failed. This result does not support the hypothesis that having more siblings is positively related with prosocial orientation. Direct comparison of effect sizes was not possible because of the change in the SVO measure, but the replication effect size was near zero. View paper