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Intergroup bias and conflict are significant and multidimensional societal challenges that require compound explanations. Recently, Alves et al. (2018) proposed a cognitive-ecological explanation for intergroup bias, which states that biases are formed based on the interaction between the basic cognitive principles of learning and the structure of the information ecology. As part of the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program, the present study consisted of a one-stage replication test of the central finding of Alves et al (2018). In this high-powered, preregistered replication of their study (analytic N = 361), we lent support to their novel explanation by replicating their main findings with different samples in a different context (Cohen’s w = .25). Thus, the current work supports the robustness of the cognitive-ecological model and gives directions for further research into how the cognitive-ecological model could expand research on intergroup bias, both towards and beyond novel groups. |
