The Medusa effect: A registered replication report of Will, Merritt, Jenkins, and Kingstone (2021)use asterix (*) to get italics

Jing Han, Minjun Zhang, Jiaxin Liu, Yu Song, Yuki YamadaPlease use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"

2023

<p>Will et al.'s (2021) found the Medusa effect, which refers to the tendency that people evaluate a “person in picture” more mindful than a “person in picture of a picture”. The present study tried to directly replicate the Experiments 2 and 5 of Will et al.'s (2021), to examine the reliability, validity, and generalization of the Medusa effect, as well as its effect on prosocial behavior. We used the same stimuli and methodology as the original research, but recruited participants in Japan with a larger sample size (N = 1387 in total) as a registered report. In our two replication experiments, we again found that pictures with lower levels of abstraction (L1) were perceived to convey more mind and lead to higher levels of prosocial behavior, successfully replicating the original findings. The results of the present study suggested the high reproducibility and generalizability of the Medusa effect. Preregistered Stage 1 protocol: https://osf.io/xj46z (date of in-principle acceptance: 09/02/2023)</p>

Mind perception, The Medusa effect, Reality, Prosocial behavior, Dictator game

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Alan Kingstone suggested: Rob Jenkins - rob.jenkins@york.ac.uk, Brittany Cassidy suggested: Jason Deska , Brittany Cassidy suggested: Luc Boutsen

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Chris Chambers