Hypothesis
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.
What failed
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).
Broken assumption
Resource-scarcity priming shifts racial categorisation of ambiguous faces in a substantial way across cultures.
Why
The abstract reports the null and says reasons are discussed, without stating one; it also differed from the original in population and in the faces used.
From the published paper: Takebe et al. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2023. ↗CC BY