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Islamophobia, Legitimacy and Social Desirability: MTurk Online Survey

Last registered on February 05, 2017

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Islamophobia, Legitimacy and Social Desirability: MTurk Online Survey
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0001994
Initial registration date
February 05, 2017

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
February 05, 2017, 1:19 PM EST

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
Bocconi University

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
University of Chicago

Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2017-01-01
End date
2017-03-31
Secondary IDs
Abstract
We will recruit survey participants on MTurk to conduct an online survey. With this survey, we plan to study whether the legitimacy (in the sense of conformity to the law) of a certain political view also affects its social desirability.
First, all subject will answer a few demographic questions. Second, they will be randomized into three groups. Subjects in the control group will receive no information. Subjects in the "popular" treatment group will be told that a large proportion of survey respondents support an anti-Muslim policy. Subjects in the "unconstitutional" treatment group will also be told that this anti-Muslim policy is unconstitutional. Third, we will measure subjects willingness to donate money to an anti-Muslim organization promoting the policy. Customers will be randomized into two groups: in one group we will emphasize that their decision is private; in the other group we will tell subjects that "a member of the research team might personally contact you to verify your answers", thus making the decision to be perceived as public. We will test our hypothesis by comparing the donation decisions of subjects in the six (3x2) experimental groups.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Bursztyn, Leonardo and Stefano Fiorin. 2017. "Islamophobia, Legitimacy and Social Desirability: MTurk Online Survey." AEA RCT Registry. February 05. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.1994-1.0
Former Citation
Bursztyn, Leonardo and Stefano Fiorin. 2017. "Islamophobia, Legitimacy and Social Desirability: MTurk Online Survey." AEA RCT Registry. February 05. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/1994/history/13724
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2017-02-06
Intervention End Date
2017-02-28

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Donation decisions.
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
We will recruit survey participants on MTurk to conduct an online survey.
First, all subject will answer a few demographic questions. Second, they will be randomized into three groups. Subjects in the control group will receive no information. Subjects in the "popular" treatment group will be told that a large proportion of survey respondents support an anti-Muslim policy. Subjects in the "unconstitutional" treatment group will also be told that this anti-Muslim policy is unconstitutional. Third, we will measure subjects willingness to donate money to an anti-Muslim organization promoting the policy. Customers will be randomized into two groups: in one group we will emphasize that their decision is private; in the other group we will tell subjects that "a member of the research team might personally contact you to verify your answers", thus making the decision to be perceived as public. We will test our hypothesis by comparing the donation decisions of subjects in the six (3x2) experimental groups.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
The randomization will be done on Qualtrics, a website for conducting online surveys.
Randomization Unit
The unit of randomization will be the individual subject.
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
N/A
Sample size: planned number of observations
600 individuals
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
100 control group private, 100 control group public, 100 popular support private, 100 popular support public, 100 unconstitutional private, 100 unconstitutional public.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
N/A
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
UCLA IRB
IRB Approval Date
2017-02-05
IRB Approval Number
IRB#16-001667

Post-Trial

Post Trial Information

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

Program Files
Reports, Papers & Other Materials

Relevant Paper(s)

Reports & Other Materials