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    Type of resources
    Primary Source, Reading, Paper
    Education level(s)
    College / Upper Division (Undergraduates)
    Primary user(s)
    Student
    Subject area(s)
    Applied Science, Social Science
    Language(s)
    English
    Cluster
    Replication and Meta-Research, Replication Crisis and Credibility Revolution
    Last updated
    29 October 2026
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    A Social Priming Data Set With Troubling Oddities

    By Harold Pashler, Doug Rohrer, Ian Abramson, Tanya Wolfson, Christine R. Harris

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    Level College / Upper Division (Undergraduates) · For Student · Language English

    Abstract

    A recent paper by Chatterjee, Rose, and Sinha (2013) reported impressively large “money priming” effects: incidental exposure to concepts relating to cash or credit cards made participants much less generous with their time and money (after cash primes) or much more generous (after credit card primes ). Primes also altered participants’ choices in a word-stem completion task. To explore these effects, we carried out re-analyses of the raw data. A number of strange oddities were brought to light, including a dramatic similarity of the filler word-stem completion responses produced by the 20 subjects who contributed most to the priming effects. We suggest that these oddities undermine the credibility of the paper and require further investigation.

    Keywords Reproducibility Crisis and Credibility Revolution