Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988)
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Wagenmakers, E. J.; Acosta Mesas, Alberto; Lupiáñez Castillo, Juan; Pacheco Unguetti, Antonia PilarEditorial
SAGE Publications
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Facial feedback hypothesis Replication Many-labs Preregistration
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2016Referencia bibliográfica
Wagenmakers, E.-J., Beek, T., Dijkhoff, L., Gronau, Q. F., Acosta, A., Adams, R. B., Jr., Albohn, D. N., Allard, E. S., Benning, S. D., Blouin-Hudon, E.-M., Bulnes, L. C., Caldwell, T. L., Calin-Jageman, R. J., Capaldi, C. A., Carfagno, N. S., Chasten, K. T., Cleeremans, A., Connell, L., DeCicco, J. M., Dijkstra, K., Fischer, A. H., Foroni, F., Hess, U., Holmes, K. J., Jones, J. L. H., Klein, O., Koch, C., Korb, S., Lewinski, P., Liao, J. D., Lund, S., Lupiáñez, J., Lynott, D., Nance, C. N., Oosterwijk, S., Özdoğru, A. A., Pacheco-Unguetti, A. P., Pearson, B., Powis, C., Riding, S., Roberts, T.-A., Rumiati, R. I., Senden, M., Shea-Shumsky, N. B., Sobocko, K., Soto, J. A., Steiner, T. G., Talarico, J. M., van Allen, Z. M., Vandekerckhove, M., Wainwright, B., Wayand, J. F., Zeelenberg, R., Zetzer, E. E., Zwaan, R. A. (2016). Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988). Perspectives on Psychological Science. Manuscript submitted for publication.
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ERC from the European Research Council 283876Abstract
According to the facial feedback hypothesis, people’s affective responses can be influenced by
their own facial expression (e.g., smiling, pouting), even when their expression did not result
from their emotional experiences. For example, Strack, Martin, and Stepper (1988) instructed
participants to rate the funniness of cartoons using a pen that they held in their mouth. In line
with the facial feedback hypothesis, when participants held the pen with their teeth (inducing a
“smile”), they rated the cartoons as funnier than when they held the pen with their lips (inducing
a “pout”). This seminal study of the facial feedback hypothesis has not been replicated directly.
This registered replication report describes the results of 17 independent direct replications of
Study 1 from Strack et al. (1988), all of which followed the same vetted protocol. A metaanalysis of these studies examined the difference in funniness ratings between the “smile” and
“pout” conditions. The original Strack et al. (1988) study reported a rating difference of 0.82
units on a 10 point Likert scale. Our meta-analysis revealed a rating difference of 0.03 units with
a 95% confidence interval ranging from -0.11 to 0.16