As I indicated in my previous post , it is not easy to estimate beforehand to which situations your conclusions generalize. But it is important to at least make an effort. Often, conclusions are wildly oversold, creating a paradoxical situation when the results are not replicated. Usually, a hidden moderator is invoked and all of a sudden the scope of conclusions previously advertised as far-reaching is drastically narrowed. An example of this arrived in my mailbox the other day. A while ago, our registered replication report of Hart & Albarracin (2011) came out. I already blogged about it. The first author, William Hart, has now written a response to our report. It will appear in the next issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science; I have an advanced copy of the response. Hart doesn’t raise substantive concerns about our report but he does suggest that maybe we didn’t replicate the original findings because the original study was run in Florida; he