Four Self-Replications to Assess the Robustness of Recent Lab Findings: Replications of Studies From Cheek and Ward (2019), Cheek, Schwartz, and Shafir (2023), Cheek and Murray (2023), and Cheek (2023)

This paper reports four preregistered replications (total N = 2,008) of previously published studies from our lab. The first study replicates Cheek and Ward (2019) Study 3, which found that people want more options when adopting a maximizing goal of making the best possible choice compared to a satisficing goal of making a “good enough” choice. The second study replicates Cheek, Schwartz, and Shafir (2023) Study 2, which found that larger choice sets make choices feel more self-expressive even when they do not afford better preference matching. The third study replicates Cheek and Murray (2023) Supplemental Study 5, which found that people’s intuitions about adaptation to psychophysical experiences are associated with their intuitions about adaptation to life hardship. The final study replicates Cheek (2023) Study 4, which found that an informational intervention can reduce the biased belief that individuals in poverty are less vulnerable to harm than higher-income individuals. We successfully replicated all of the original effects, increasing confidence in the earlier findings.