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    The Evaluation of Harm and Purity Transgressions in Africans: A Paradigmatic Replication of Rottman and Young (2019)
    (2021-07-27) Adetula, Adeyemi; Forscher, Patrick; Basnight-Brown, Dana; Wagge, Jordan; Namalima, Takondwa, Rex; Kaphesi, Frank, Ephraim; Kaliyapa, Wickson; Mulungu, Kennedy; Silungwe, Walusungu; Gopye, Polycarp, Chamkat; Malingumu, Winfrida; Azouaghe, Soufian; Alsayed, Ebaa; Ndukaihe, Izuchukwu; Kalongonda, Milton; Dzuka, Alert; Charyate, Abdelilah; Adetula, Gabriel, Agboola; Ogbonnaya, Chisom; Shanka, Mesay, Sata; Eze, Nsi; Enworo, Oko; Gold, Zione; Abolade, Saheed; Shumiye, Olawu; Primbs, Maximilian; IJzerman, Hans
    Improving the generalizability of psychology findings to a culture requires sampling participants in that culture. Yet psychology studies rarely sample from African populations, even though it represents 17% of the overall world population. This study aimed to conduct an African-led replication study to test whether Rottman and Young’s “mere-trace” hypothesis of moral reasoning (that people are more sensitive to the dosage of harm-based transgressions than purity transgressions) extends to several African communities. We used a training method developed by the Collaborative Replication and Education Project (CREP) to support and train 23 African collaborators. During this process, we conducted a paradigmatic replication of Rottman’s and Young’s test of the mere trace hypothesis in Egypt, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania. [We did not find/We found] evidence for the main interaction effect (bdomain x dose = xxx) of transgression severity on the moral wrongness judgment of impure and harmful violations. [We did/ However, we did not] replicate Rottman and Young's findings among Africans. This project helped improve the research capacity of our participating African sites and will support other researchers in collaborating with African scholars.