1 Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.
2 Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University.
Psychol Sci. 2017 Aug;28(8):1148-1159. doi: 10.1177/0956797617706161. Epub 2017 Jul 5.
A major challenge for accumulating knowledge in psychology is the variation in methods and participant populations across studies in a single domain. We offer a systematic approach to addressing this challenge and implement it in the domain of money priming. In three preregistered experiments ( N = 4,649), participants were exposed to one of a number of money manipulations before completing self-report measures of money activation (Study 1); engaging in a behavioral-persistence task (Study 3); completing self-report measures of subjective wealth, self-sufficiency, and communion-agency (Studies 1-3); and completing demographic questions (Studies 1-3). Four of the five manipulations we tested activated the concept of money, but, contrary to what we expected based on the preponderance of the published literature, no manipulation consistently affected any dependent measure. Moderation by sociodemographic characteristics was sparse and inconsistent across studies. We discuss implications for theories of money priming and explain how our approach can complement recent efforts to build a reproducible, cumulative psychological science.
在心理学领域，积累知识的一个主要挑战是单个领域内研究中方法和参与者群体的变化。我们提供了一种系统的方法来解决这个挑战，并在货币启动领域实施。在三个预先注册的实验中（N=4649），参与者在完成货币激活的自我报告测量之前（研究 1）；参与行为坚持任务（研究 3）；完成主观财富、自给自足和共同体-代理的自我报告测量（研究 1-3）；以及完成人口统计学问题（研究 1-3）。我们测试的五个操作中的四个激活了金钱的概念，但与我们根据已发表文献的优势所预期的相反，没有任何操作始终影响任何因变量。在不同的研究中，社会人口特征的调节作用很少且不一致。我们讨论了对货币启动理论的影响，并解释了我们的方法如何补充最近建立可重复、累积的心理科学的努力。
