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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

When Both the Original Study and Its Failed Replication Are Correct: Feeling Observed Eliminates the Facial-Feedback Effect

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Social

  • Tom Noah
    University of Southern California
  • Yaacov Schul
    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Ruth Mayo
    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Abstract

Recent findings demonstrate that the sensation of being watched reduces reliance on internal information in judgment. We tested whether this effect can explain the failed attempt to replicate the facial feedback effect, in which – unlike in the original study – participants were videotaped during the experiment.

Social Cognition