Empirical audit and review and an assessment of evidentiary value in research on the psychological consequences of scarcity

Michael O'Donnell, Amelia S. Dev, Stephen Antonoplis, Stephen M. Baum, Arianna H. Benedetti, N. Derek Brown, Belinda Carrillo, Andrew L. Choi, Paul Connor, Kristin Donnelly, Monica E. Ellwood-Lowe, Ruthe Foushee, Rachel Jansen, Shoshana N. Jarvis, Ryan Lundell-Creagh, Joseph M. Ocampo, Gold N. Okafor, Zahra Rahmani Azad, Michael Rosenblum, Derek Schatz, Daniel H. Stein, Yilu Wang, Don A. Moore, Leif D. Nelson

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021. DOI 10.1073/pnas.2103313118

Has this study been replicated?

This paper is itself a replication attempt, targeting 17 studies, listed below.

Studies replicated

Stuck in Time: Negative Income Shock Constricts the Temporal Window of Valuation Spanning the Future and the Past, Bickel et al. (2016). PLOS ONE. View paper
Did They Earn It? Observing Unearned Luxury Consumption Decreases Brand Attitude When Observers Value Fairness, Lee et al. (2018). Journal of Consumer Psychology. View paper
Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015, Camerer et al. (2018). Nature Human Behaviour. View paper
The existential cost of economic insecurity: Threatened financial security undercuts meaning, Abeyta et al. (2016). The Journal of Social Psychology. View paper
Seeking Lasting Enjoyment with Limited Money: Financial Constraints Increase Preference for Material Goods over Experiences, Tully et al. (2015). Journal of Consumer Research. View paper
Spending on Daughters versus Sons in Economic Recessions, Durante et al. (2015). Journal of Consumer Research. View paper
On the Psychology of Scarcity: When Reminders of Resource Scarcity Promote Selfish (and Generous) Behavior, Roux et al. (2015). Journal of Consumer Research. View paper
Creating When You Have Less: The Impact of Resource Scarcity on Product Use Creativity, Mehta & Zhu (2015). Journal of Consumer Research. View paper
The Dark Side of Scarcity Promotions: How Exposure to Limited-Quantity Promotions Can Induce Aggression, Kristofferson et al. (2016). Journal of Consumer Research. View paper
Eliciting Time versus Money: Time Scarcity Underlies Asymmetric Wage Rates, Monga et al. (2017). Journal of Consumer Research. View paper
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function, Mani et al. (2013). Science. View paper
Scarcity Frames Value, Shah et al. (2015). Psychological Science. View paper
Economic Insecurity Increases Physical Pain, Chou et al. (2016). Psychological Science. View paper
Knowing Who You Are and Adding to It, Emery et al. (2014). Social Psychological and Personality Science. View paper
Scarcity Polarizes Preferences: The Impact on Choice among Multiple Items in a Product Class, Zhu & Ratner (2015). Journal of Marketing Research. View paper
Effects of Perceived Scarcity on Financial Decision Making, Cook & Sadeghein (2018). Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. View paper
Money in the Mental Lives of the Poor, Shah et al. (2018). Social Cognition. View paper

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O'Donnell, M., Dev, A. S., Antonoplis, S., Baum, S. M., Benedetti, A. H., Brown, N. D., Carrillo, B., Choi, A. L., Connor, P., Donnelly, K., Ellwood-Lowe, M. E., Foushee, R., Jansen, R., Jarvis, S. N., Lundell-Creagh, R., Ocampo, J. M., Okafor, G. N., Azad, Z. R., Rosenblum, M., … Nelson, L. D. (2021). Empirical audit and review and an assessment of evidentiary value in research on the psychological consequences of scarcity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(44). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2103313118 Individual report available at https://osf.io/74byu/files/ecvfa

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