Study 2: 'How well do we switch'? - Using Performance evaluations to Assess Social Identity Switches

Autor: Zinn, Anna, Koschate-Reis, Miriam, Lavric, Aureliu
Rok vydání: 2022
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DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/3w4fv
Popis: This Study builds on Study 1 ("How well do we switch? - Using Linguistic Style to Assess Social Identity Switches") in which we examined whether social identity switches are effective or if they lead to identity activation costs (an impairment in activating the new social identity). Participants wrote a text on a topic strongly linked to their feminist identity after either completing an identity switch (they wrote a text linked to their parent identity prior to the main writing task) or remaining in the same identity (the previous text was also linked to their feminist identity). The purpose of this study is to test whether switching social identities (in comparison to remaining in the same social identity) leads to performance costs. We will ask two Postgraduate Teaching Assistants to rate the writing performance and strength of arguments in short texts that participants wrote as part of our previous study. They will rate performance based on the following items: - The arguments are convincing - The content is relevant for the topic - The text is well-written - The arguments are creative - The statements are something I agree with The raters will not be aware of whether the texts were written after a social identity repeat or after a switch. This allows us to directly compare the performance after switches and repeats. If social identity switches lead to performance costs, we would expect better performance scores in the repeat condition as compared to the switch condition. However, based on our previous findings (that social identity switches are effective) we will test for the Null-Hypothesis of there being no performance costs.
Databáze: OpenAIRE