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Reward omission and racial bias

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  1. Demographic survey (6 pages)
  2. Frustration Induction Task & a Control variant
  3. Brief Implicit Association Test
  4. Explicit Evaluations

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Demographic Survey

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19 items measuring Age, Income, Sex, Ethnicity, Ethnic Identity Strength, Religion, Religious Identity Strength, positions on Political statements, Political Affiliation

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Frustration Induction Task (FIT)

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A 12 trial 'colour matching' task where participants are reinforced with "$$" along pre-determined intervals. Across the 'frustrated' iteration of the attached task, participants are penalized of all earnings. Mood checks (of subjective levels of Happiness, Optimism, Frustration and Anger) are implemented before and after reward omission trials.

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Brief Implicit Association Test ~ White & Black male targets

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Four 20 trial blocks where White/Black faces have to be differentially categorized with Positive/Negative attributes using the 'd' and 'k' response keys (Srirarm & Greenwald, 2009).

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The Chicago face database
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-014-0532-5

The brief implicit association test
https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1618-3169.56.4.283


Explicit evaluations ~ White and Black male targets

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White and Black male targets from the Chicago Faces database (CFD-IDs: BM-230, BM-224, BM-233, BM-213, WM-220, WM243, WM-010, WM-019 - Ma, Correll, & Wittenbrink, 2015) are evaluated along four dimensions (TRUSTWORTHINESS, SUSPICION, DESIRE TO MEET, DESIRE TO AVOID) across 20 trials. Each evaluation is made along a 10-point scale, scored from 0 (Not at all) to 10 (Very much).

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The Chicago faces database
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-014-0532-5

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Preferred Citation Amd, M. (2020). Preprint
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202010.0218/v1
Conducted at University of the South Pacific
Published on 02 September 2020