The initial job-loss framing effect on authoritarian attitudes failed to replicate

Evidence

I then sought to replicate the finding, as I almost always do, using 370 students in September 1993. This time 84% of the Lows in both conditions said, “Enforce the standards.” The Highs showed more sensitivity to losing their jobs (78% versus 67%, but z > .30). I tried again, and again, and again, with samples of 245 and 269 students in November 1993 and 468 parents in October 1994. I never found another statistically significant difference for Lows, or for Highs. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1562

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: Altemeyer reports a failed replication candidly — how much of political psychology’s analogous findings would survive similar re-testing?
• SEED: A piece on how rarely researchers publish failed replications of their own headline findings — this passage is a model of the practice.