OSF page for Experiment 1 of Mah et al. - ***A Direct Replication and Extension of Popp and Serra (2016, Experiment 1): Better Free Recall and Worse Cued Recall of Animal Names than Object Names, Accounting for Semantic Similarity*** Free recall performance tends to be better for names or pictures of animate concepts such as animals than for names or pictures of inanimate objects (VanArsdall, Nairne, Pandeirada, & Blunt, 2013). Popp and Serra (2016) replicated this “animacy effect” in free recall but obtained a reverse animacy effect when participants studied words in pairs (animate-animate pairs intermixed with inanimate-inanimate pairs) and were tested with cued recall. That is, cued recall performance was better for inanimate-inanimate pairs than for animate-animate pairs. Using the Popp and Serra computer program and word set, we conducted a preregistered direct replication of their Experiment 1 (mixed-lists condition). Popp and Serra tested small groups of undergraduates (N = 36) in a lab, whereas we collected data online in a larger undergraduate sample (N = 101). Just as in Popp and Serra, free recall performance was better for animate words than for inanimate words (animacy effect) whereas cued-recall performance was better for inanimate-inanimate pairs than for animate-animate pairs (reverse animacy effect). Unlike Popp and Serra, we found that controlling for interference effects rendered the reverse animacy effect non-significant. We take this as evidence that characteristics of the stimulus sets (e.g., category structure, within-category similarity) may play a role in animacy and reverse animacy effects.​​ We added questions, after the last memory test, regarding participants’ subjective impressions; responses indicated partial but incomplete meta-memorial awareness of animacy effects. ****TO ACCESS OUR DATA AND EXPERIMENT MATERIALS, DOWNLOAD ALL FILES IN THE "OSF STORAGE" FOLDER FOR THIS PAGE. SEE THE "README" TEXT FILE IN THIS FOLDER FOR MORE INFORMATION.**** ****TO ACCESS MATERIALS FOR THE GRADUATE SEMINAR COURSE IN WHICH THIS REPLICATION PROJECT WAS CONDUCTED, SEE THE "COURSE MATERIALS" COMPONENT.****