Robert Calin-Jageman
Neuroscientist and methodologist, co-author of the pre-registered replication that is the hardest result in this literature to argue with.
Who they are
The design closes the usual escape routes. The original materials were obtained, sample sizes were planned in advance for informative precision, the study was pre-registered, quality controls were adopted, and a positive control was included so that a null could not simply mean the method was dead.
It was run both online and in person.
Key papers
Lehmann, G. K., & Calin-Jageman, R. J. (2017). Is red really romantic? Social Psychology, 48(3), 174-183.
Key ideas
For men rating women, a very weak effect in the predicted direction.
For women rating men, a very weak effect in the opposite direction.
The authors leave three possibilities open: the original studies may have overestimated the effect, theirs may have underestimated it, or the effect may be strongly moderated by something not yet identified.
Concepts on this site
Sources
- doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000296