Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

A racial priming article claimed that, relative to a controlcondition, an exotic variety of variability, called 1/ƒ noise, isaltered when stereotypes impact participants’ judgments in animplicit prejudice task (Correll, 2008). However, Madurskiand LeBel (2014) recently described two powerful, faithfullycloned, and apparently decisive studies that each failed toreturn a successful literal replication of Correll’s report.Madurski and LeBel outlined and subsequently eliminatedseveral potential extraneous reasons for their replicationfailures, such as different participant demographics,participant non-compliance, poor psychometrics, andhardware discrepancies. By contrast, this article reports asuccessful conceptual replication of the pattern reported byCorrell (cf. Schmidt, 2009). Notably, this conceptualreplication required adjustments to Correll’s original methodand statistical analyses. All the changes were dictated by asystems theory of 1/ƒ noise that was largely in place prior toCorrell’s report (Kello, Beltz, Holden, & Van Orden, 2007;Van Orden, Holden, & Turvey, 2003; 2005). Implications forthe replication debate are discussed, with emphasis oncontextualizing implicit cues.