Social psychology — Spatial distance priming

Part of the known effect of cosmetics on how others treat a woman comes from her own change in behaviour, so a solicitor who only believes she wears cosmetics would also receive more donations.

Men's donation rates were highest with real cosmetics, lower with placebo cosmetics and lowest with none, but the effect of condition was not statistically significant.

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Reminding people of death would increase national patriotism, as the traditional mortality-salience effect predicts, and would also shift democratic values, ingroup identification and pro-sociality.

Neither a lab experiment (N = 101, Norway) nor a larger online experiment (N = 784, US) replicated the mortality-salience effect on national patriotism. Conceptual replications on democratic values, processing speed, psychophysiological responses, ingroup identification and pro-sociality were not supported either.

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Priming resource scarcity would make East Asian participants more likely to judge ambiguous East/South Asian faces as out-group members, as scarcity priming did for White participants judging White/Black faces.

In a preregistered conceptual replication in Japan (N = 769, power 0.79 for d = 0.2), the pattern matched the original but the priming effect was not significant (d = 0.1).

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A game-based inoculation intervention, repeatedly effective in Western samples, would help people in north India spot and resist misinformation.

In a randomised controlled trial in north India (n = 757), the intervention had no significant impact on the perceived reliability of misinformation, confidence judgments, or willingness to share information.

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