Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task: A Preregistered Replication of the Olson and Fazio (2001) Study

Tal Moran, Sean Hughes, Ian Hussey, Miguel A. Vadillo, Michael A. Olson, Frederik Aust, Karoline Bading, Robert Balas, Taylor Benedict, Olivier Corneille, Samantha B. Douglas, Melissa J. Ferguson, Katherine A. Fritzlen, Anne Gast, Bertram Gawronski, Tamara Giménez-Fernández, Krzysztof Hanusz, Tobias Heycke, Fabia Högden, Mandy Hütter, Benedek Kurdi, Adrien Mierop, Jasmin Richter, Justyna Sarzyńska-Wawer, Colin Tucker Smith, Christoph Stahl, Philine Thomasius, Christian Unkelbach, Jan De Houwer

Psychological Science, 2020. DOI 10.1177/0956797620968526

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 reproduction of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 failed.

Reproductions

Unaware Attitude Formation in the Surveillance Task? Revisiting the Findings of Moran et al. (2021), Kurdi et al. (2022). International Review of Social Psychology. Outcome recorded: computational issues, robustness challenges. We show that the contingency awareness measures used by Olson and Fazio and, by extension, Moran et al. lack adequate reliability and validity. Moreover, even assuming valid awareness measures, Bayesian analyses did not provide unambiguous evidence for unaware EC effects under any exclusion criterion and provided decisive evidence against such effects in most models. Finally, a separate analysis that distinguished between fully aware, partially aware, and fully unaware… Outcome read from the abstract. View paper

Study replicated

Implicit Attitude Formation Through Classical Conditioning, Olson & Fazio (2001). Psychological Science. View paper

Cite this record

Moran, T., Hughes, S., Hussey, I., Vadillo, M. A., Olson, M. A., Aust, F., Bading, K., Balas, R., Benedict, T., Corneille, O., Douglas, S. B., Ferguson, M. J., Fritzlen, K. A., Gast, A., Gawronski, B., Giménez-Fernández, T., Hanusz, K., Heycke, T., Högden, F., … De Houwer, J. (2020). Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task: A Preregistered Replication of the Olson and Fazio (2001) Study. Psychological Science, 32(1), 120–131. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620968526

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