A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across culturesShow others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 2372021 (English)In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, ISSN 0022-1031, E-ISSN 1096-0465, Vol. 93, article id 104060Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
How can we maximize what is learned from a replication study? In the creative destruction approach to replication, the original hypothesis is compared not only to the null hypothesis, but also to predictions derived from multiple alternative theoretical accounts of the phenomenon. To this end, new populations and measures are included in the design in addition to the original ones, to help determine which theory best accounts for the results across multiple key outcomes and contexts. The present pre-registered empirical project compared the Implicit Puritanism account of intuitive work and sex morality to theories positing regional, religious, and social class differences; explicit rather than implicit cultural differences in values; self-expression vs. survival values as a key cultural fault line; the general moralization of work; and false positive effects. Contradicting Implicit Puritanism's core theoretical claim of a distinct American work morality, a number of targeted findings replicated across multiple comparison cultures, whereas several failed to replicate in all samples and were identified as likely false positives. No support emerged for theories predicting regional variability and specific individual-differences moderators (religious affiliation, religiosity, and education level). Overall, the results provide evidence that work is intuitively moralized across cultures.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 2021. Vol. 93, article id 104060
Keywords [en]
Culture, Falsification, Implicit social cognition, Priming, Replication, Theory testing, Work values, article, controlled study, destruction, education, false positive result, human, human experiment, morality, null hypothesis, prediction, replication study, social class, social cognition, theoretical study
National Category
Economic History
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316178DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104060ISI: 000618203300003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85097902093OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-316178DiVA, id: diva2:1699255
Note
QC 20220927
2022-09-272022-09-272022-09-27Bibliographically approved