Table 1.
Name, description and citation or online location of the self-confirmatory tests for the 16 discoveries included in this meta-analysis
| Study name | Description of central result | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Tumour | People hold others responsible for their past good behaviour caused entirely by a brain tumour but not responsible for their past bad behaviour. | https://osf.io/4n8pf/ |
| Minimal Groups | People demonstrate less ingroup favouritism when they have been changed from one minimal group to another than when they have not changed group membership. | https://osf.io/adrbe/ |
| Cookies | People are seen as greedier when they take three of the same kind of (free) cookie than when they take three different (free) cookies. | https://osf.io/3vz4k/?view_only=da10896b68fe4420bf6c65a3a7bd64f6 |
| Label | When a researcher uses a label to describe people who hold a certain opinion, he or she is interpreted as disagreeing with that opinion when a negative label is used and agreeing with that opinion when a positive label is used. | https://osf.io/xq5jb/?view_only=5305a812208d48bba3e546bfe38c6c24 |
| Self-Control | Someone who commits battery due to self-control failure is less likely to be found guilty if their failure was due to brain damage instead of genes for low self-control. | Ref. 44 |
| Orientation | People judge same-sex interactions as more indicative of the sexuality of men than that of women. | https://osf.io/s6qdv/ |
| Referrals | People think it is less appropriate to send product referrals when they are the sender of the referral than when they are merely judging the behaviour of someone else who sends the referral. | https://osf.io/v3thd/?view_only=1c32808a01ee4c8c816480825ad5bebf |
| Ads | Watching a short ad within a soap-opera episode increases one’s likelihood to recommend and promote the company in the ad. | https://osf.io/ngz5k/?view_only=8cf18a2babc1499e98ef57dbb9926a80 |
| FSD | Forcing people to answer questions quickly makes them give more socially desirable answers. | Ref. 45 |
| Prediction | People make more complicated sets of predictions when asked to do so without having the opportunity to explore data. | https://osf.io/e2sf8/ |
| Fairness | People evaluate the fairness of punishments that can be expressed in multiple currencies (for example, time and money) on the basis of whichever currency is initially more salient, but they update their fairness judgements when the translation to the other currency is highlighted. | Ref. 46 |
| Ostracism | People who are ostracized by computers in an online ball-tossing game become less trusting towards people in general. | https://osf.io/58vz9/?view_only=312b6136155849a79f3416933a05789b |
| Misattribution | People misattribute the feeling of a-ha! they feel while solving an anagram to the truth of the statement the anagram is embedded in. | Ref. 47 |
| Redemption | People who look different after committing a transgression seem more remorseful, trustworthy and deserving of a second chance than people who look the same as they did at the time of their transgression. | http://osf.io/6h5s2/ |
| Worse | People evaluate Team B more favourably when they are told that Team A is more qualified than Team B than when they are told that Team B is less qualified than Team A. | Ref. 48 |
| Misreporting | People will report not engaging in an activity if they learn that reporting they have engaged in the activity will result in several additional questions. | https://osf.io/3ud4s/?view_only=420da5b8113b42be8710cd7c4b4af14a |