"I did it before, so I can do it again(?)": Recalling success, expectations of future success and the impact of ease-of-retrieval and attributions.

Psychol Res · 2025 · PMC12222241 · PMID 40601108

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0.0770

closest p · 1.5× alpha

0.0770

boldest claim

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very close to statistical significancep = 0.077so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The observed association was consistent with H2 and very close to statistical significance: b = −0.19 [−0.40,0.02], t = 1.78, p = 0.077.

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not quite statistically significantno p-value reported

The estimated effect was however small (just over one-tenth of a point on a 0–10 scale) and not quite statistically significant.

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