Adetula, AdeyemiForscher, PatrickBasnight-Brown, DanaWagge, JordanNamalima, Takondwa, RexKaphesi, Frank, EphraimKaliyapa, WicksonMulungu, KennedySilungwe, WalusunguGopye, Polycarp, ChamkatMalingumu, WinfridaAzouaghe, SoufianAlsayed, EbaaNdukaihe, IzuchukwuKalongonda, MiltonDzuka, AlertCharyate, AbdelilahAdetula, Gabriel, AgboolaOgbonnaya, ChisomShanka, Mesay, SataEze, NsiEnworo, OkoGold, ZioneAbolade, SaheedShumiye, OlawuPrimbs, MaximilianIJzerman, Hans2024-03-172024-03-172021-07-27https://doi.org/10.31730/osf.io/hxjbuhttps://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/732https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/688https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/688https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/688Supplemental Materials: https://osf.io/kvhzg/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.AfricacorelabmoralityPsychological Sciencereplication