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Out, damned spot: can the "Macbeth Effect" be replicated?

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Zhong and Liljenquist (2006) reported evidence of a "Macbeth Effect" in social psychology: a threat to people's moral purity leads them to seek, literally, to cleanse themselves. In an attempt to build upon these findings, we conducted a series of direct replications of Study 2 from ZandL's seminal report. We used ZandL's original materials and methods, investigated samples that were more representative of the general population, investigated samples from different countries and cultures, and...

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10.1080/01973533.2013.856792

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University of Oxford
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University of Oxford
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MSD
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Experimental Psychology
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BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Journal website
Volume:
36
Issue:
1
Pages:
91-98
Publication date:
2014-01-01
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1532-4834
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0197-3533
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English
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uuid:a9374625-a9a5-4ebd-8e3b-d24c8fbc97e4
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451249
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2014-04-07

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