Choosing versus rejecting: Why some options are both better and worse than others

Eldar Shafir

Memory & Cognition, 1993. DOI 10.3758/bf03197186

Has this study been replicated?

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

Choosing, rejecting, and closely replicating, 30 years later: A commentary on Chandrashekar et al, Shafir & Cheek (2024). Outcome recorded: mixed. we compose new versions with updated attributes that fully replicate Shafir's (1993) original findings. View paper
Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings, Klein et al. (2018). Outcome recorded: failed. This result was small in magnitude and in the direction opposite that of the original finding, and it is incompatible with the hypothesis that negative features are weighted more strongly when people are rejecting options and positive features are weighted more strongly when people are selecting opt View paper
Accentuation and compatibility: Replication and extensions of Shafir (1993) to rethink choosing versus rejecting paradigms, Chandrashekar et al. (2021). Outcome recorded: failed. In a preregistered very close replication of the original study (N = 1026), we found no consistent support for the hypotheses across the eight problems: two had similar effects, two had opposite effects, and four showed no effects (overall d = −0.01 [−0.06,0.03]). View paper