Washing Away Your Sins: Threatened Morality and Physical Cleansing
Has this study been replicated?
The atlas records 5 replications of this study. Recorded outcomes: 4 failed, 1 successful.
Replications
- Out, Damned Spot: Can the "Macbeth Effect" Be Replicated?, Earp et al. (2014). Outcome recorded: failed.
Despite multiple good-faith efforts, however, we were unable to detect a "Macbeth Effect" in any of our experiments.
View paper - The Effect of Physical Cleaning on Threatened Morality in Individuals With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Reuven et al. (2013). Outcome recorded: successful.
Replicating previous findings, physical cleaning reduced the willingness to help and relieved moral emotions.
View paper - Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings, Klein et al. (2018). Outcome recorded: failed.
This result is not consistent with the hypothesis that copying an account of an unethical action increases the desirability of cleans- ing products compared with copying an account of an ethical action.
View paper - The Uncertain Universality of the Macbeth Effect with a Spanish Sample, Gámez et al. (2011). Outcome recorded: failed.
We were unsuccessful in replicating the Zhong & Liljenquist ́s results that supported cleansing as a psychological mechanism for compensating guilty: results couldn't confirm an increased mental accessibility of cleansing-related concepts or even a greater desire for cleansing products, neither a gr
View paper - Is cleanliness next to godliness? Dispelling old wives' tales: Failure to replicate Zhong and Liljenquist (2006), Fayard et al. (2009). Outcome recorded: failed.
Despite larger samples and thus greater power to detect effects, both studies failed to replicate the original work of Zhong and Liljenquist (2006).
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