Pre-Registration Template
This page provides our laboratory’s pre-registered implementation for the
Registered Replication Report (RRR) project to replicate a study based on
Experiment 4 from:
Dijksterhuis, A., & Van Knippenberg, A. (1998). The relation between
perception and behavior, or how to win a game of trivial pursuit. Journal of
personality and social psychology, 74(4), 865-877.
Our study follows the standard protocol available on the main OSF page for the
RRR (https://osf.io/k27hm/).
Contributors
List all authors from your team along with their University affiliation
Panagiotis Rentzelas, Birmingham City University, UK
Athfah Akhtar, Birmingham City University, UK
Silvio Aldrovandi, Birmingham City University, UK
Experimenter skills/qualifications
Briefly describe the qualifications and training for those conducting the testing, and note how
any research assistants will be trained to administer the protocol. Note any expertise with the
topic area or methods used in this study.
Panagiotis is a Lecturer in Social Psychology, holds a PhD in experimental social
psychology and holds extensive experience on lab based social psychology experimental
paradigms. He holds publications in the area of group norm manipulations.
Athfah is a Lecturer in Applied Psychology, holds a PhD in applied psychology and has
extensive research experience in field studies.
Silvio is a Senior lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, holds a PhD and has extensive
experience in lab based socio-cognitive experimental paradigms.
Setting/Lab/Equipment
Please describe the testing environment. Include details about the computers you will use,
where participants will be tested (i.e., describe how the testing space is arranged so that
participants won't feel observed by other participants or the experimenter), and how many
testing stations are available. Please include photographs of your lab setting.
Participants will be tested at individual testing booths of Birmingham City University’s
Psychology department. The testing booths are 3 and each participant will be tested
individually. Our participants won’t feel observed by other participants or the
experimenters, since there will not be any contact among other participants or the
experimenter. A total of 3 participants can be tested in an individual session.
Target sample size:
How many participants do you plan to test in total. Replace N and K with values for your study.
We will schedule a total of 38 sessions with 3 participants in each session, for a target
sample of 38 x 3 participants.
Minimum sample size after exclusions:
Your minimum usable sample size must exceed the protocol requirement of 25 participants in
each combination of prime and gender. Note that this box is a commitment: Once you register
your page, you will need to continue collecting data until you reach this many usable
participants. Replace the Ns in the box with the values for your study.
We will continue collecting data until we have usable data from a minimum of 26 male and
26 female participants in each condition
Stopping rule(s):
Describe how you will ensure that your sample meets or exceeds your minimum sample size.
How will you determine when you will stop collecting data. Anticipate what you would do if, after
meeting your target sample size, you needed additional participants to meet your minimum
required sample size (e.g., after exclusions). The suggested wording is acceptable if you
replace N with the number of participants in each session and MINIMUM with your minimum
sample size after exclusions (Specified above):
If, after completing all of the scheduled testing sessions and after any exclusions, we have
fewer than 26 men and 26 women in either condition, we will schedule additional sessions
of 3 participants until we have usable data from at least 26 men and 26 women in each
condition.
Target sample demographics:
Describe the source of your participants, how they will be compensated, and the predicted
demographic characteristics. If you will be recruiting men and women separately (e.g., via
separate listings for the subject pool), indicate that.
Our participants will Birmingham City University undergraduate students. They will be
recruited from the departmental participant’s pool. The demographic characteristics will be
an equal number between males and females participants and of an age rage between 18
to 24 years old.
Software/Code
We will use the provided materials, including the python code for the study. We have
verified that the code works with the computers in our laboratory.
Randomization to conditions:
Participants will be randomly assigned to conditions by the code for the experiment.
Blinding to conditions:
Describe how you will ensure that participants were unaware that other participants received
different primes.
All the initial ethics materials (consent form and information sheet) as well the
experimenter will not reveal any information about different primes. This will be revealed
to the participants at the end of the study and in the debriefing form.
Exclusion rules:
Describe how you will handle data exclusions. The official protocol describes a number of
reasons for exclusion. These include a failure to complete all tasks or incorrect administration of
the tasks by the experimenter. You must adhere to these exclusion rules. If you will be using
any other exclusion rules, specify them here. If not, just state, “We will use the exclusion rules
specified in the protocol. Exclusions will be made by someone blind to condition assignment.”
We will use the exclusion rules specified in the protocol. Exclusions will be made by
someone blind to condition assignment
Differences from the official protocol
Note any significant additions to or departures from the official protocol. If you are adding
additional measures or conditions to the end of the study, you should give full details here.
Please make sure to explain why adding these measures will not affect the primary tasks and
measures (you can refer to other uploaded materials if necessary or add more pages below). If
you are using translated materials, note that here too and describe your translation procedures
(who translated them and how you back-translated them to verify the accuracy of the
translations). You should provide the translations on additional pages.
Since our participant sample will be in the UK will change any references to soccer into
football.