TY - GEN A1 - Yamada, Yuki A1 - Xue, Jin A1 - Li, Panpan A1 - Ruiz-Fernández, Susana A1 - Özdoğru, Asil Ali A1 - Sarı, Şahsenem A1 - Torres, Sergio C. A1 - Hinojosa, José A. A1 - Montoro, Pedro R. A1 - AlShebli, Bedoor A1 - Bolatov, Aidos K. A1 - McGeechan, Grant J. A1 - Zloteanu, Mircea A1 - Razpurker-Apfeld, Irene A1 - Samekin, Adil A1 - Tal-Or, Nurit A1 - Tejada, Julian A1 - Freitag, Raquel A1 - Khatin-Zadeh, Omid A1 - Banaruee, Hassan A1 - Robin, Nicolas A1 - Briseño-Sanchez, Guillermo A1 - Barrera-Causil, Carlos J. A1 - Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando T1 - Where the ‘bad’ and the ‘good’ go : a multi-lab direct replication report of Casasanto (2009, Experiment 1) T2 - Memory & Cognition N2 - Casasanto (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 351–367, 2009) conceptualised the body-specificity hypothesis by empirically finding that right-handed people tend to associate a positive valence with the right side and a negative valence with the left side, whilst left-handed people tend to associate a positive valence with the left side and negative valence with the right side. Thus, this was the first paper that showed a body-specific space–valence mapping. These highly influential findings led to a substantial body of research and follow-up studies, which could confirm the original findings on a conceptual level. However, direct replications of the original study are scarce. Against this backdrop and given the replication crisis in psychology, we conducted a direct replication of Casasanto’s original study with 2,222 participants from 12 countries to examine the aforementioned effects in general and also in a cross-cultural comparison. Our results support Casasanto’s findings that right-handed people associate the right side with positivity and the left side with negativity and vice versa for left-handers. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01637-1 SN - 0090-502X VL - 2024 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC ER -