Failure Does Not Teach Success

Replication and extension of Eskreis-Winkler and Fishbach (2019)

Abstract

In a two-alternative forced-choice task, true and false feedbacks give us similar information that shows which options are true or false. However, a previous study （Eskreis-Winkler & Fishbach, 2019) indicated that learning from false feedback is less effective than learning from true feedback. This study tries to replicate the previous findings and apply this effect to faces. Two pre-registrated experiments consistently found that learning from false feedback was less effective than learning from true feedback in accordance with the previous findings.