Be careful what you wish for: Commentary on Ebersole et al. (2016)

Ebersole et al.'s (2016) attempt to replicate Monin and Miller (2001) raises important questions about choosing beforehand which statistical test is the target of a replication. While our original theory a priori only predicted a main effect of the credentials manipulation, we had observed in the study reproduced here an unexpected interaction with participant gender. The current paper fails to replicate this originally unpredicted interaction,...