Pain as Social Glue: Shared Pain Increases Cooperation

Brock Bastian, Jolanda Jetten, Laura J. Ferris

Psychological Science, 2014. DOI 10.1177/0956797614545886

Has this study been replicated?

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

Pain as Social Glue: A Preregistered Direct Replication of Experiment 2 of Bastian et al. (2014), Prochazka et al. (2022). Outcome recorded: failed. No relevant effect of shared pain on cooperation emerged. View paper
Pain and sharing: A re-examination of the findings of Bastian, Jetten, and Ferris (2014), Qi et al. (2020). Outcome recorded: successful. We conducted two experiments to investigate the relative effects of pain and sharing on enhancing people's bonding and cooperative behavior by adding conditions of unshared pain and unshared no-pain. In experiment 1, we replicated Bastian, Jetten, and Ferris's ( 2014 ) findings, and found that the e View paper