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Super-Size Me: An Unsuccessful Preregistered Replication of the Effect of Product Size on Status Signaling

Tunca, Burak LU orcid ; Ziano, Ignazio and Wenting, Xu (2022) In Meta-Psychology 6.
Abstract
Dubois, Rucker, and Galinsky (2012, Experiment 1) found that consumers view larger-size options as a signal of higher status. We conducted a close replication of this finding (N = 415), and observed a nonsignificant effect in the opposite direction (small vs. large product size: doriginal = 1.49, 95%CI [1.09, 1.89], dreplication = 0.09 95%CI [-0.15, 0.33]; medium vs. large: doriginal = 0.89 95%CI [0.52, 1.26], dreplication = 0.11 95%CI [-0.13, 0.34]; small vs. medium: doriginal = 0.62 95%CI [0.26, 0.98], dreplication = -0.01 95%CI [-0.25, 0.23]). We discuss potential reasons for this unsuccessful replication as well as implications for the status-signaling literature in consumer psychology.
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  abstract     = {{Dubois, Rucker, and Galinsky (2012, Experiment 1) found that consumers view larger-size options as a signal of higher status. We conducted a close replication of this finding (N = 415), and observed a nonsignificant effect in the opposite direction (small vs. large product size: doriginal = 1.49, 95%CI [1.09, 1.89], dreplication = 0.09 95%CI [-0.15, 0.33]; medium vs. large: doriginal = 0.89 95%CI [0.52, 1.26], dreplication = 0.11 95%CI [-0.13, 0.34]; small vs. medium: doriginal = 0.62 95%CI [0.26, 0.98], dreplication = -0.01 95%CI [-0.25, 0.23]). We discuss potential reasons for this unsuccessful replication as well as implications for the status-signaling literature in consumer psychology.}},
  author       = {{Tunca, Burak and Ziano, Ignazio and Wenting, Xu}},
  issn         = {{2003-2714}},
  keywords     = {{status; inferences; product size; replication; open science}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  series       = {{Meta-Psychology}},
  title        = {{Super-Size Me: An Unsuccessful Preregistered Replication of the Effect of Product Size on Status Signaling}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/115626333/Tunca_et_al_2022_Meta_Psychology.pdf}},
  volume       = {{6}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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