The Evaluation of Harm and Purity Transgressions in Africans: A Paradigmatic Replication of Rottman and Young (2019)

Abstract

Improving the generalizability of psychology findings to a culture requires sampling participants in that culture. Yet few psychology studies sample Africans. We believe we can expand the capacity of African psychology researchers by giving them freely available, cutting-edge research tools and workflows. We used a training method developed by the Collaborative Replication and Education Project (CREP) to support and train 23 African collaborators to conduct a paradigmatic replication of the psychology of moral transgressions (Rottman & Young, 2019) in 6 African countries (Egypt, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania). We completed extensive preparatory work, including developing training materials in African languages, assessing our collaborators’ current research capacity, and conducting a re-analysis of Rottman and Young’s original data. This project has the potential to improve research capacity in Africa and provide empirical evidence on Africans' moral judgment of purity transgressions.

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“…We conducted a so-called "paradigmatic replication" of their study however, "modify ing an original (to-be-replicated) study's method, design, or materials, and potentially correcting flaws in the methods, design, or materials, so that the new study is diagnostic of the original study's claims as our best-faith effort interpretation of the original stud ies" (p. 8, Adetula et al, 2021; see also Vohs et al, 2021). We used Symonds et al ' protocol, using the same procedure but we lowered the water temperature used for the cooling intervention, because one of the co-authors, Costello, managed to replicate Symonds's study using 15°C water instead of 19-20°C water and the lower water temperature would increase the chances for BAT activity.…”