Abstract : Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998) reported that participants primed with a category associated with intelligence
(“professor”) subsequently performed 13% better on a trivia test than participants primed with a category associated
with a lack of intelligence (“soccer hooligans”). In two unpublished replications of this study designed to verify the
appropriate testing procedures, Dijksterhuis, van Knippenberg, and Holland observed a smaller difference between
conditions (2%–3%) as well as a gender difference: Men showed the effect (9.3% and 7.6%), but women did not (0.3%
and −0.3%). The procedure used in those replications served as the basis for this multilab Registered Replication
Report. A total of 40 laboratories collected data for this project, and 23 of these laboratories met all inclusion criteria.
Here we report the meta-analytic results for those 23 direct replications (total N = 4,493), which tested whether
performance on a 30-item general-knowledge trivia task differed between these two priming conditions (results of
supplementary analyses of the data from all 40 labs, N = 6,454, are also reported). We observed no overall difference
in trivia performance between participants primed with the “professor” category and those primed with the “hooligan”
category (0.14%) and no moderation by gender.
