Where the ‘Bad’ and the ‘Good’ Go: A Multi-Lab Direct Replication Report of Casasanto (2009, Experiment 1)
Yuki Yamada, Jin Xue, Panpan Li, Susana Ruiz-Fernández, Asil Ali Özdoğru, Şahsenem Sarı, Sergio C. Torres, José A. Hinojosa, Pedro R. Montoro, Bedoor AlShebli, Aidos K. Bolatov, Grant J. McGeechan, Mircea Zloteanu, Irene Razpurker-Apfeld, Adil Samekin, Nurit Tal-Or, Julian Tejada, Raquel Freitag, Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Hassan Banaruee, Nicolas Robin, Guillermo Briseño-Sanchez, Carlos J. Barrera-Causil, and Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos
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.
Yuki Yamada, Jin Xue, Panpan Li, Susana Ruiz-Fernández, Asil Ali Özdoğru, Şahsenem Sarı, Sergio C. Torres, José A. Hinojosa, Pedro R. Montoro, Bedoor AlShebli, Aidos K. Bolatov, Grant J. McGeechan, Mircea Zloteanu, Irene Razpurker-Apfeld, Adil Samekin, Nurit Tal-Or, Julian Tejada, Raquel Freitag, Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Hassan Banaruee, Nicolas Robin, Guillermo Briseño-Sanchez, Carlos J. Barrera-Causil, and Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos
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.Keywords: Embodied cognition, Body-specificity hypothesis, Social cognition, Conceptual mapping, Space–valence association, Handedness, Big team science
Citation: Yamada, Y., Xue, J., Li, P., Ruiz-Fernández, S., Özdoğru, A. A., Sarı, Ş., Torres, S. C., Hinojosa, J. A., Montoro, P. R., AlShebli, B., Bolatov, A. K., McGeechan, G. J., Zloteanu, M., Razpurker-Apfeld, I., Samekin, A., Tal-Or, N., Tejada, J., Freitag, R., Khatin-Zadeh, O., . . . Marmolejo-Ramos, F. (2024). Where the ‘bad’ and the ‘good’ go: A multi-lab direct replication report of Casasanto (2009, Experiment 1). Memory & Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01637-1
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