PG and honesty with Israeli Arab and Jewish students
Creators: name: Ashur, Yarden
name: Eyal, Tal
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: In a pretest, ten Arab students (targets) were recorded introducing themselves and responding to 10 statements, yielding 11 short videos per target. The targets then went on to rate the extent to which they agree with the 10 statements, on a scale from 1 (not at all) to 7 (very much). The questionnaire includes 5 political attitudes statements (sensitive domain) and 5 university related statements (non-sensitive domain). The targets also rated their overall honesty in answering the different items, on a scale from 1 (very honest) to 7 (not honest at all). In this study, the participants (Jewish students) will first watch a short 2 minute video of one target from the pretest introducing themselves and will be told that later on they will be asked to predict the target’s attitudes. In order to motivate the participants to be accurate, they will be rewarded one bonus credit point if they get more than half of the items correct, in addition to the 2 credit points they receive for their participation in the study. The participants will also be told that they will get feedback regarding their accuracy at the end of the study. The participants will then be presented with the same questionnaire that the target completed in the pretest. For each of the items, the participant will rate how honest he/ she thinks the target will be in reporting their attitude, on a scale from 1(not honest at all) to 7 (very honest), and whether he/ she would like to ask the target about his/ her attitude in order to increase the accuracy of their predictions. The participant will then indicate why he/ she chose the number of questions he/ she did (open question). The participant will indicate how many items (0-5) from each domain (political, university) they think he/ she will predict exactly correct (i.e., first confidence measure). The participants will indicate how honest they think the target will generally be when reporting his/ her attitudes, on a scale ranging from 1 (not honest at all) to 7 (very honest) (i.e., first general honesty measure). The participants will then be assigned to one of three conditions: Control, Perspective getting choice (PG-choice), and Perspective getting all (PG-all). The participants in the PG-choice condition will watch the target’s response on video to the items they chose to ask the target, and the participants in the PG-All condition will watch the target’s response to all the items. After each video, the participants will indicate how honest he/ she thinks the target was in his/her response. The participants in the control condition will not watch videos. Next, the participants will predict the target’s responses to each of the different items, and rate the target’s general honesty (i.e., second general honesty measure), on a 7-point scale. The participants will also rate how many items from each domain they think they predicted exactly correct (i.e., second confidence measure). Additional measures: participants will indicate how similar they feel to the target, how much they like him/ her, how much they know Arabs, how threatened they feel by Arabs. Participants will also indicate how much they think of themselves as similar to the average Jew, and how much they think of the target as similar to the average Arab. Ratings will be done on a 7-point scale, from 1 (not at all), to 7 (very much). In light of past studies from our lab in which participants in the PG-choice conditions chose to ask about a third of the questions, we would like to investigate the reasons for the number of questions they choose and focus specifically on one potential barrier for asking questions – perceived honesty (i.e., the worry that the other person will not honestly reveal his/ her attitudes, especially on sensitive issues).