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. 2024 Apr 26;37:6. doi: 10.5334/irsp.932

Table 7.

Bastian et al. (2012) Studies 1 and 2: Summary of replication based on LeBel et al. (2019) criteria.


H HYPOTHESIS DESCRIPTION METHOD BASTIAN ET AL. (2012)’S EFFECT SIZE REPLICATION EFFECT SIZE REPLICATION EVALUATION

1a Mind attribution is negatively associated with perceived edibility of animals. Pearson Correlation r = –.42 r = –.45
[–.69, –.12]
Signal-consistent

1b Mind attribution is positively associated with negative affect regarding eating animals. Pearson Correlation r = .77 r = .80
[.62, .90]
Signal-consistent

1c Mind attribution is positively associated with moral concern for animals. Pearson Correlation r = .80 r = .83
[.68, .91]
Signal-consistent

2 Being told that animals will be raised for meat consumption (compared to being told they will live as grazing animals) leads to denial of mind for those animals. Paired Samples t-Test d = 0.40 d = 0.30
[.24, .37]
Signal-inconsistent, smaller