Where the ‘bad’ and the ‘good’ go: A multi-lab direct replication report of Casasanto (2009, Experiment 1)
Casasanto (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 351-367, 2009) conceptualised the body-specificity hypothesis by empirically finding that right-handed people tend to associate a positive valence with the right side and a negative valence with the left side, whilst left-handed people tend to associate a positive valence with the left side and negative valence with the right side. Thus, this was the first paper that showed a body-specific space-valence mapping. These highly influential findings led to a substantial body of research and follow-up studies, which could confirm the original findings on a conceptual level. However, direct replications of the original study are scarce. Against this backdrop and given the replication crisis in psychology, we conducted a direct replication of Casasanto's original study with 2,222 participants from 12 countries to examine the aforementioned effects in general and also in a cross-cultural comparison. Our results support Casasanto's findings that right-handed people associate the right side with positivity and the left side with negativity and vice versa for left-handers.
Authors
- Nicolas Robin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-621X)
- José Antonio Hinojosa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7482-9503)
- Yuki Yamada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1431-568X)
- Omid Khatin‐Zadeh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5294-9777)
- Carlos Barrera-Causil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7288-7710)
- Adil Samekin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9684-1944)
- Grant McGeechan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3994-8507)
- Bedoor AlShebli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-5162)
- Susana Ruiz Fernández (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-1506)
- Pedro R. Montoro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5665-8587)
- Julián Tejada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0275-3578)
- Asil Ali Özdoğru (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4273-9394)
- Sergio Cervera‐Torres
- Irene Razpurker‐Apfeld (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9158-4915)
- Guillermo Briseño‐Sánchez
- Hassan Banaruee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8004-7604)
- Raquel Meister Ko. Freitag (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4972-4320)
- Fernando Marmolejo‐Ramos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4680-1287)
- Mircea Zloteanu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-637X)
- Nurit Tal‐Or (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5643-0745)
- Aidos Bolatov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5390-4623)
- Panpan Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5777-0899)
- Xue Jin
- Şahsenem Sarı
Institutions
- New York University Abu Dhabi (AE)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)
- Beijing Institute of Technology (CN)
- Üsküdar University (TR)
- Kyushu University (JP)
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN)
- University of South Australia (AU)
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (ES)
- Shenzhen University (CN)
- Universidade Federal de Sergipe (BR)
- TU Dortmund University (DE)
- Kingston University London (GB)
- Universidad Nebrija (ES)
- The Fourth People's Hospital of Zibo City (CN)
- University of Education Weingarten (DE)
- Maqsut Narikbayev University (KZ)
- Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (DE)
- Zefat Academic College (IL)
- Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano (CO)
- Astana Medical University (KZ)
- Central Hospital of Zibo (CN)
- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (DE)
- Université des Antilles (GP)
- Marmara University (TR)
- Teesside University (GB)
- University of Haifa (IL)
- University of Science and Technology Beijing (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Memory & Cognition
- Published
- 2024-09-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01637-1
- Citations
- 11
- Primary Topic
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.77
Funders
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science