http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ulab_cogscipsych_repext2022/rss Recent eScholarship items from Replication/Extension Papers 2021 - 2022 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:45:51 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fw3f6nj Intuitive metacognitive processes such as metaperception surprisingly have a lot moreinfluence on the intersectionality between interpersonal relations and health than one thinks. Of the many forms of metaperception, this paper aims to further explore the overblown implications effect (OIE), which is a prevalent metaperception error where one overestimates how much other people think of their successes or failures. We conducted a mixed ANOVA analysis and found further support for the statistically significant discrepancy between actors’ metaperception ratings and observers’ social perception ratings. For the extension, we continue to explore whether a longer rating duration for the actors would result in more accurate predictions of observers’ ratings compared to observers’ actual ratings by running a mixed ANOVA analysis. We hypothesized that increasing the rating duration would decrease the difference between the actors’ metaperception ratings and the observers’ social perception... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fw3f6nj Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 He, Cady Wang, Katharine Liu, Jessica Ercingöz, Deniz Balagula, Karena Lee, Jane https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sw5v0t5 Declining cognition, physical health, and mental health are common yet major publichealth challenges. However, research connecting declining cognition and health to common social stressors is limited. This paper aims to replicate Lindert et al. (2021), who used the MIDUS data set, a national sample of non-institutionalized, English-speaking respondents aged 25-74 living throughout the United States, to investigate the decline in episodic memory and executive function with social stress variables. The subsequent extension of the original study seeks to predict various physical and mental health outcomes from different community trust variables. In both the replication and extension, multivariate linear regression models were used to analyze the effect of social stressors and trust on cognition and health. We replicated the results reported in the original study, which suggested greater levels of perceived inequality in the family, marital stress, lifetime discrimination, and daily... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sw5v0t5 Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Allen, Yirmeyahuw Cohen, Rebecca Kaur, Gurleen Pham, Rachel Su, Rachel Wang, Serena Wong, Katrina https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sn8d3m5 The mental model theory (MMT) proposes that reasoners mentally construct iconic representations of the information they have processed (Johnson-Laird, 2020). This study focuses on the mental model theory to explore the effect of working memory on reasoning, how mental models are represented internally, and how these features of reasoning vary across developmental stages. We referred to Demiddele et al.’s (2019) methods as the foundation of our analysis of the mental model theory in schoolchildren. The main finding of this study was that when note-taking is available, participants spontaneously draw iconic representations of the information consistent with MMT. Their performances varied with and without notes, with participants generally scoring more points when they took notes. In our replication, we attempted to recreate the results of the original study through an in-depth analysis of the statistical models utilized that assessed the implications and the application of the mental... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sn8d3m5 Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Mettapalli, Amit Patel, Neel Yang, Sharona Brown, Tauren Chowdhury, Tayeba Sherwal, Anant https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34c0z5bt The self-congruity effect of music is the tendency of listeners to choose music based on how similar they are to the artist. The personality traits of both the artist and fan can be measured using the Big Five personality traits. Developed in the 1980s to group together personality traits, these traits include openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Openness describes an individual’s curiosity, conscientiousness describes being organized or dependable, extraversion describes a person’s inclination to seek stimulation from the outside world, agreeableness describes a person’s tendency to put others’ needs ahead of their own, and neuroticism describes being anxious or irritable. A 2021 study ran a series of three tests that measured the kind of musical preference, demographics, and perception the participants attained (Greenberg et al.). They concluded that there is statistical significance between the personality of an artist and those who self-identified... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34c0z5bt Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Adami, Sean Feng, Ruth Kuo, Allison Noru, Sahana Sanchez, Kellan Shafaeen, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t09k7dh To analyze the development and nature of essentialist beliefs about race in earlychildhood, we replicated Mandalaywala and colleagues’ original study on the topic, in which a “switched-at-birth” task was used to test participants’ beliefs about the heritability of skin color and behavioral/psychological traits. We accessed their data through OSF and implemented quasibinomial and linear regression models using RStudio. As an extension to the original study, models were modified to incorporate participant sex as a variable. Overall, children judged skin color to be more heritable when the race of the birth mother was white but neither participant race nor sex was a strong predictor of general beliefs about the heritability of skin color. As expected, greater outgroup exposure was associated with a decrease in racial essentialism. Additionally, we found that Black participants exhibited higher levels of racial essentialism, and both Black participants and female participants displayed... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t09k7dh Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Abramsky-Sze, Sofia Mon Kyaw, Yee Maroufkhani, Sherien-Isabelle Rasheed, Maia Shah, Molisha Lee, Erin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0667f7dg Analogical transfer, or the ability to use similar solutions to solve seemingly dissimilar problems, has been studied in children using tasks that require the support of long-term memory. However, the transfer of solutions that require the use of tools, or objects with certain functional parts, has not been studied in great depth. This paper replicates and extends upon data collected from a novel study that investigated the role of age and memory on analogical transfer across children who attend public preschools in southern Sweden (Bobrowicz et al., 2020). The purpose of this study was to integrate analogical transfer with functional tool-dependent problem solving and study how both skills develop in toddlerhood. The replication yielded similar results to the original experiment in all five hypotheses tested, with the main finding being that age is not a significant predictor of being able to display analogical transfer from task to task. As an extension to the variables examined... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0667f7dg Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Bains, Jasleen Chang, Kristen Liu, Rachel Pierce, Midori Vedagarbha, Namrata https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zc3h9tf Previous research in moral psychology has shown that the willingness to protect a criminal an offender from punishment is influenced by emotional closeness to that offender (Weidman et al., 2020). Research has yet to examine cognitive mechanisms and the information considered whendeciding between protecting or reporting the offender. We replicated Experiment 2a of Berg Kitayama, & Kross (2021), which investigated how closeness to the offender and crime severity influence the willingness to protect the offender, as well as the attentional mechanisms informing that decision. Using Berg & colleagues’ (2021) data, we also explored whether familial vs. non-familial and romantic vs. non-romantic close relationships with the transgressorinfluenced the willingness to protect them. The findings from our replication of Experiment 2a revealed that people were (1) more likely to protect emotionally close transgressors than distant transgressors; (2) more likely to protect the transgressor... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zc3h9tf Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Liu, Andie Rahardjo, Alexa Roelofs, Ashley Sreya, Alvi Su, Isabella Zhou, Katie Qu, Deborah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dt471ds Previous research has documented that infants as young as six months have intuitions about affiliations regarding shared preferences as well as an understanding of homophily. Homophily ultimately influences friendships, marriages, hiring decisions — the interactions of everyday life. Moreover, understanding shared preferences is relevant to predicting human behavior, as well as guiding child development and socialization.The present study aims to (1) replicate earlier work proving the infants’ understanding of homophily and (2) extend our understanding of infant homophily in regards to characterizing the differences in homophily by sex. Both the replication and extension support the original study by proving the original theory that infants can recognize homophilic attractions. The extension, however, explores the roles that sex and test trial type play in homophily, which the original researchers did not observe. Ultimately, the extension provides preliminary evidence that there... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dt471ds Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Cho, YeSeul Depew, Isabella Lee, Marissa Sarmiento, Solei Kapoor, Tarunika Weerakoon, Nimangie