Where the ‘bad’ and the ‘good’ go: A multi-lab direct replication report of Casasanto (2009, Experiment 1)
Yamada Y. Xue J. Li P. Ruiz-Fernández S. Özdoğru A.A. Sarı Ş. Torres S.C. Hinojosa J.A. Montoro P.R. AlShebli B. Bolatov A.K. McGeechan G.J. Zloteanu M. Razpurker-Apfeld I. Samekin A. Tal-Or N. Tejada J. Freitag R. Khatin-Zadeh O. Banaruee H. Robin N. Briseño-Sanchez G. Barrera-Causil C.J. Marmolejo-Ramos F.
May 2025Springer
Memory and Cognition
2025#53Issue 41140 - 1146 pp.
Casasanto (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 351–367, 2009) conceptualised the body-specificity hypothesis by empirically finding that right-handed people tend to associate a positive valence with the right side and a negative valence with the left side, whilst left-handed people tend to associate a positive valence with the left side and negative valence with the right side. Thus, this was the first paper that showed a body-specific space–valence mapping. These highly influential findings led to a substantial body of research and follow-up studies, which could confirm the original findings on a conceptual level. However, direct replications of the original study are scarce. Against this backdrop and given the replication crisis in psychology, we conducted a direct replication of Casasanto’s original study with 2,222 participants from 12 countries to examine the aforementioned effects in general and also in a cross-cultural comparison. Our results support Casasanto’s findings that right-handed people associate the right side with positivity and the left side with negativity and vice versa for left-handers.
Big team science , Body-specificity hypothesis , Conceptual mapping , Embodied cognition , Handedness , Social cognition , Space–valence association
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Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
School of Foreign Languages, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
School of Foreign Studies, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China
Zibo Zhangdian No. 8 Middle School, Shandong Province, Zibo, China
BTU Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
Department of Psychology, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Department of Psychology, Üsküdar University, Istanbul, Turkey
Multimodal Interaction Lab, Leibniz Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany
Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dpto. Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Centro de Ciencia Cognitiva - C3, Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
Departamento de Psicología Básica 1, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Social Science Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
School of Medicine, Astana Medical University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Centre for Applied Psychological Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Department of Criminology, Politics, and Sociology, Kingston University London, London, United Kingdom
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Zefat Academic College, Safed, Israel
M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Department of Communication, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Department of Psychology, Federal University of Sergipe, São Christóvão, Brazil
Department of Letters, Federal University of Sergipe, São Christóvão, Brazil
School of Foreign Languages, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
University of Education Weingarten, Weingarten, Germany
Faculty of Sport Sciences, Université des Antilles, Pointe-à-Pitre, France
Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Aplicadas, Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia
University of South Australia Online, Adelaide, Australia
Faculty of Arts and Science
School of Foreign Languages
School of Foreign Studies
Zibo Zhangdian No. 8 Middle School
BTU Brandenburg University of Technology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Multimodal Interaction Lab
Instituto Pluridisciplinar
Dpto. Psicología Experimental
Centro de Ciencia Cognitiva - C3
Departamento de Psicología Básica 1
Social Science Division
School of Medicine
Shenzhen University Medical School
Centre for Applied Psychological Sciences
Department of Criminology
Department of Behavioral Sciences
M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University
Department of Communication
Department of Psychology
Department of Letters
School of Foreign Languages
University of Education Weingarten
Faculty of Sport Sciences
Department of Statistics
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Aplicadas
University of South Australia Online
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