TY - JOUR
T1 - Where the ‘bad’ and the ‘good’ go
T2 - A multi-lab direct replication report of Casasanto (2009, Experiment 1)
AU - Yamada, Yuki
AU - Xue, Jin
AU - Li, Panpan
AU - Ruiz-Fernández, Susana
AU - Özdoğru, Asil Ali
AU - Sarı, Şahsenem
AU - Torres, Sergio C.
AU - Hinojosa, José A.
AU - Montoro, Pedro R.
AU - AlShebli, Bedoor
AU - Bolatov, Aidos K.
AU - McGeechan, Grant J.
AU - Zloteanu, Mircea
AU - Razpurker-Apfeld, Irene
AU - Samekin, Adil
AU - Tal-Or, Nurit
AU - Tejada, Julian
AU - Freitag, Raquel
AU - Khatin-Zadeh, Omid
AU - Banaruee, Hassan
AU - Robin, Nicolas
AU - Briseño-Sanchez, Guillermo
AU - Barrera-Causil, Carlos J.
AU - Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2025/5
Y1 - 2025/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Big team science
KW - Body-specificity hypothesis
KW - Conceptual mapping
KW - Embodied cognition
KW - Handedness
KW - Social cognition
KW - Space–valence association
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85204575539
U2 - 10.3758/s13421-024-01637-1
DO - 10.3758/s13421-024-01637-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 39313589
AN - SCOPUS:85204575539
SN - 0090-502X
VL - 53
SP - 1140
EP - 1146
JO - Memory and Cognition
JF - Memory and Cognition
IS - 4
ER -