Numerous articles by the social psychologists Diederick Stapel, Dirk Smeesters, and Lawrence Sanna have been retracted in several different journals. The present notice reports the results of an investigation into papers authored or coauthored by these individuals, and published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, that have not been retracted. The status of these papers range from data confirmed as legitimate by coauthors to, in many cases, being unknown as to their legitimacy. Given the lack of information in the latter cases, there is insufficient basis to recommend retraction at this time. Researchers using the results of these papers in their own work are advised to take the information reported in this notice into account.
(2012). Retraction of “The influence of mood on attribution,” “Affects of the unexpected: When inconsistency feels good (or bad),” “Why people stereotype affects how they stereotype: The differential influence of comprehension goals and self-enhancement goals on stereotyping,” “Silence and table manners: When environments activate norms,” and “Event accessibility and context effects in causal inference: Judgment of a different order.”Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(10), 1378. doi:10.1177/014616721246282.
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(2013). Retraction of “Terror Management and Stereotyping: Why Do People Stereotype When Mortality Is Salient?,” “Distinctiveness is key: How different types of self-other similarity moderate social comparison effects,” and “When we wonder what it all means: Interpretation goals facilitate accessibility and stereotyping effects.”Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(2), 264. doi:10.1177/0146167212474240
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(2013). Retraction notice to “The effect of color (red versus blue) on assimilation versus contrast in prime-to-behavior effects” (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47(2011) 653-656). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(2), 315.
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Retraction. Journal of Consumer Research, 39(2), 444. doi:10.1177/0146167212474240.
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(2012). Retraction of Johnson, Smeesters, and Wheeler (2012). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103(4), 605. doi:10.1037/a0030145
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(2013). Retraction notice to “Rising up to higher virtues: Experiencing elevated physical height uplifts prosocial actions” (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47(2010) 472-476). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(2), 316.
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(2013). Retraction notice to “Think and act globally, think and act locally: Cooperation depends on matching construal to action levels in social dilemmas” (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 46(2010) 1126-1129). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(2), 317.
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(2013). Retraction notice to “When thoughts don’t feel like they used to: Changing feelings of subjective ease in judgments of the past” (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45(2009) 940-946). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(2), 319.
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(2012). Retraction of Construing collective concerns: Increasing cooperation by broadening construals in social dilemmas. Psychological Science, 23, 949.
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(2012). Retraction of Mixed-motive conflict in social dilemmas: Mood as input to competitive and cooperative goals: Retraction of Sanna, Parks, and Chang (2003). Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 16(3), 205. doi:10.1037/a0030131
KoS. J.JuddC. M.StapelD. A. (2009). Stereotyping based on voice in the presence of individuating information: Vocal femininity affects perceived competence but not warmth. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 198-211.
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LamS. R.MorrisonK. R.SmeestersD. (2009). Gender, intimacy, and risky sex: A terror management account. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1046-1056.
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MorrisonK. R.WheelerS. C.SmeestersD. (2007). Significant other primes and behavior: Motivation to respond to social cues moderates pursuit of prime-induced goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1661-1674.
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ParksC. D.SannaL. J.BerelS. R. (2001). Actions of similar others as inducements to cooperate in social dilemmas. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 345-354.
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SannaL. J. (1997). Self-efficacy and counterfactual thinking: Up a creek with and without a paddle. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 654-666.
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SannaL. J.ChangE. C.CarterS. E. (2004). All our troubles seem so far away: Temporal pattern to accessible alternatives and retrospective team appraisals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1359-1371.
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SannaL. J.ChangE. C.CarterS. E.SmallE. M. (2006). The future is now: Prospective temporal self-appraisals among defensive pessimists and optimists. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 727-739.
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SannaL. J.ChangE. C.MeierS. (2001). Counterfactual thinking and self-motives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1023-1034.
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SannaL. J.PuseckerP. A. (1994). Self-efficacy, valence of self-evaluation, and performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 82-92.
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SannaL. J.TurleyK. J. (1996). Antecedents to spontaneous counterfactual thinking: Effects of expectancy violation and outcome valence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 906-919.
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SannaL. J.TurleyK. J.MarkM. M. (1996). Expected evaluation, goals, and performance mood as input. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 323-335.
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SchwinghammerS. A.StapelD. A.BlantonH. (2006). Different selves have different effects: Self-activation and defensive social comparison. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 27-39.
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SpearsR.GordijnE.DijksterhuisA.StapelD. A. (2004). Reaction in action: Intergroup contrast in automatic behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 605-616.
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StapelD. A.KoomenW. (2005). When less is more: The consequences of affective primacy for subliminal priming effects. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1286-1295.
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StapelD. A.MartinL. L.SchwarzN. (1998). The smell of bias: What instigates correction processes in social judgments?Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 797-806.
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StapelD. A.WinkielmanP. (1998). Assimilation and contrast as a function of context-target similarity, distinctness, and dimensional relevance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 634-646.
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SwimJ. K.SannaL. J. (1996). He’s skilled, she’s lucky: A meta-analysis of observers’ attributions for women’s and men’s successes and failures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 507-519.
