Methods and Measures
Creators: name: Taylor-Ritzler, Tina
name: Adilene Osnaya
name: Lopez, Josselin
name: Gaona, Mayra Alejandra
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2017

description: Participants 
Participants will be recruited by convenience sampling using Amazon MTurk. They will be 18 years old or older in order to be able to provide informed consent. Since the present study is an exact replication of Powell et al. (2005), our sample was limited to White participants only. All participants will be given $1 as compensation for their participation.

Demographic Questions
Participants will be asked to report their race, gender, age, and income.

Measures

Study One
Framing Inequality 
Participants will be given a set of 24 statements that have to do with racial inequality between Whites and African Americans. There are two versions of these statements (See Appendix B). In the first version, participants will receive a set of statements that frames racial inequality in terms of White Privilege (condition 1). These statements include, "The national media encourages White Americans to feel proud of their race." Responses to these statements will be given using a 7 point-scale with (1) indicating Strongly Disagree and (7) indicating Strongly Agree. 

Collective Guilt Index
Participants will be given a five item measure that includes statements such as, "I feel guilty about White Americans' harmful actions toward African Americans." Participants will respond using a 7 point-scale where (1) indicates Strongly Disagree and (7) indicates Strongly Agree. Responses to these 5 items will be averaged to create a collective guilt index. Higher ratings indicate higher collective guilt (See Appendix D). 

Racism Scale 
Participants will be given a five item measure that includes statements such as, "On average, people in our society treat White Americans and Black Americans equally." Participants will respond using a 7 point-scale where (1) indicates Strongly Disagree and (7) indicates Strongly Agree. Responses to these five items will be averaged to create a racism index. Higher scores indicate more racism (See Appendix E). 

Study Two
Framing Inequality 
Participants will be asked to create their own statements. Instructions for this task will vary by condition. Participants in the White Privilege condition were asked to write down the many ways in which they have benefited or been advantaged because of their race. Participants in the Black Disadvantage condition were asked to write down the many ways in which African Americans have not benefited or have been disadvantaged because of their race (See Appendix C).

Collective Guilt
Participants will be given a seven item measure, the five items from study one plus two more. Participants will respond using a 7 point-scale where (1) indicates Strongly Disagree and (7) indicates Strongly Agree. Responses to these 7 items will be averaged to create a collective guilt index. Higher ratings indicate higher collective guilt (See Appendix D). 

Racism Scale 
Participants will be given a five item measure that includes statements such as, "Discrimination against Blacks is no longer a problem in the United States." Participants will respond using a 7 point-scale where (1) indicates Strongly Disagree and (7) indicates Strongly Agree. Responses to these five items will be averaged to create a racism index. Higher scores indicate more racism (See Appendix E). 

Beliefs in White Privilege and White Identification
Participants will be asked to respond to two statements that have to do with their perception of the prevalence of White privilege. Additionally, they will be asked to respond to seven statements that will be used to measure White identification (See Appendix F). Responses to these seven items will be averaged to create a White identification index. Higher scores indicate greater White identification.