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All empirical items are still moral-violation vignettes: no open independent non-moral replication was found, and the two likeliest candidates (Earleywine & Mankoff; Knegtmans et al. 2018) were not readable.\n\nCurator qualifications: 7 of 7 excerpts with text present. Westwood: 'conveniently sampled university students (N = 204)', 2x2x2x4 mixed design; 'Range η2p: .37 - .52'; the failed replication is 'an unpublished paper that sought to determine whether the benign-violation theory also explained humourous responses in an Indian sample (Eriksson, 2011)'. 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