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The overall pattern of our findings is consistent with the original study, in that we again found a cross-over interaction between human identity cues (human villains vs. nonhuman villains) and diversity cues (all-White heroes vs. racially diverse heroes) on the strength of human identity. Participants reported stronger human identity when watching racially diverse heroes fighting against nonhuman villains compared to human villains. Participants also reported stronger human identity when watching White heroes fighting against human villains compared to non-human villains. However, we are hesitant to claim that Ellithorpe et al.\u2019s results were fully replicated in our research as most simple main effects of group comparisons were statistically nonsignificant. Overall, our findings offered limited support to Ellithorpe et al.\u2019s original study and minimal support to CIIM. Our experiment also extended the original research. 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