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We will examine how mask wearing and colorism affect perceptions of likability, empathy, and threat. We will also explore if this relationship is moderated by political orientation. We will recruit 300 participants, to reach a power of .8, plus an additional 50 participants as a buffer for exclusionary criteria. Participants will be recruited via Amazon's Mechanical Turk website and will complete a survey using Qualtrics. Each participant will complete an informed consent before beginning the study. Then they will see a photo of a White, light-skinned Black, or dark-skinned Black man's hands on laptop in a coffee shop. Below that will be a scenario. The scenario will state if the man is wearing a mask and have a quote from him which reveals his attitudes towards mask-wearing. The mask condition and race condition will be randomly assigned. Participants will then complete a likability questionnaire, empathy questionnaire, and threat questionnaire regarding the man in the scenario. Following, they will be asked to complete a manipulation and validity check. We hypothesize that participants will rate the darker Black man as less likable, more threatening, and will receive less empathy from the participant on average than both the lighter Black man and White man. Our second hypothesis is that participants in the No Mask condition will rate the individual as less likable, more threatening, and will receive less empathy from the participant than the individual in the Mask condition. Our third hypothesis is that for the darker Black man, perceived likability and participants’ feelings of empathy towards the individual will be lower and perceived threat will be higher when not wearing a mask versus when wearing a mask. The same effect will hold for the lighter skin Black man and the White man, yet the difference will be smaller than for the darker Black individual. Our final and exploratory hypothesis is that participants’ ratings in both conditions will be moderated by their political affiliation. We will test these hypotheses by analyzing our data using a 3 (race: White, dark-skinned Black, light-skinned Black) x 2 (Mask, no mask) between subjects ANOVA. We will also complete a 3 (race: White, dark-skinned Black, light-skinned Black) x 2 (Mask, no mask) x 2 (political affiliation: Democrat, Republican, Independent) between subjects ANOVA. We will preform t-tests to isolate the source of interaction if necessary. |
