Uncivil Microaggression Response Pilot 1

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Design

Participants read an email exchange where a man (Paul) said something sexist: “No idea, but it’s a leadership position so I doubt very many women will apply. And the women who do apply probably won’t be very strong.” And then another man (Jeff) responded.

Manipulations

Manipulation Text
Uncivil (retinciv2) Shut up, Paul. No one wants to hear what you have to say.
Neutral (nonresponse) Keep me updated
Civil (civil) Please don’t say that, Paul.

Items

status

Item label Item text - 3 0 3
j_posstat1 After his response back to Paul, I think Jeff is worthy of…: -3. A lot of disrespect 0. Neither disrespect nor respect 3. A lot of respect
j_posstat2 After his response back to Paul, I hold Jeff… -3. In very low regard 0. In neither low regard nor high regard 3. In very high regard
j_posstat3 After his response back to Paul, in terms of being like Jeff…: -3. I want to be very different from him -3. A lot of disrespect 0. I don’t want to be like him, or different from him

rewards

Do you think that Jeff should experience any of the following changes after his response to Paul?

Item label Item text - 3 0 3
j_reward1 change in his salary: -3. should definitely be decreased 0. would keep the same 3. should definitely be increased
j_reward2 change in his job rank: -3. should definitely be demoted 0. would keep the same 3. should definitely be promoted
j_reward3 change in visibility of his project assignments: -3. Should be assigned to projects with very low visibility 0. Should remain on projects with the same visibility as before 3. Should be assigned to projects with high visibility
j_reward4 change in his public recognition: -3. Should definitely be decreased 0. Should be kept the same 3. Should definitely be increased

socrewards

Do you think that Jeff should experience any of the following changes after his response to Paul?

Item label Item text - 3 0 3
j_socreward1 at the next work event: -3. I would avoid Jeff 0. I would neither avoid nor approach Jeff 3. I would approach Jeff
j_socreward2 how much closer did you feel to Jeff?: -3. I felt much more distant from him 0. The amount of closeness I felt towards him did not change 3. I felt much closer to him
j_socreward3 how would the amount of time that you want to spend with Jeff change?: -3. I would want to spend much less time with him 0. I would not want to change the amount of time I spend with him 3. I would want to spend much more time with him

auth

When Jeff responded to Paul, did you think that Jeff was… (1 = not at all, 4 = somewhat, 7 = very much so)

  • acting authentically?
  • acting true to himself?

agency

When Jeff responded to Paul, did you think that Jeff was… (1 = not at all, 4 = somewhat, 7 = very much so)

  • confident
  • skillful
  • competitive
  • powerful
  • capable
  • agentic

comm

When Jeff responded to Paul, did you think that Jeff was… (1 = not at all, 4 = somewhat, 7 = very much so)

  • warm
  • good natured
  • friendly
  • considerate
  • caring
  • understanding

deter/learn uncivil

When Jeff responded to Paul, did you think that Paul… (1 = not at all, 4 = somewhat, 7 = very much so)

  • learnuncivil1: would be uncivil in the future?
  • learnuncivil2: feel intimidated?
  • learnuncivil3: learned his lesson?

Results

Correlations

Means

Effect sizes and differences

Graphs

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Exploratory

Response

Would you respond to Jeff’s email? If so, what would you say? (0 = No, 1 = Yes)

##         manipulation_label
## response Uncivil Civil NonResponse
##        0      61    49          62
##        1      21    36          21
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## Call:
## glm(formula = response ~ manipulation_label, family = "binomial", 
##     data = uncivilpilot1_clean)
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## Coefficients:
##                               Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)    
## (Intercept)                    -1.0664     0.2530   -4.21 0.000025 ***
## manipulation_labelCivil         0.7581     0.3350    2.26    0.024 *  
## manipulation_labelNonResponse  -0.0163     0.3574   -0.05    0.964    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
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## (Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)
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##     Null deviance: 310.35  on 249  degrees of freedom
## Residual deviance: 303.04  on 247  degrees of freedom
## AIC: 309
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## Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 4
##                   (Intercept)       manipulation_labelCivil manipulation_labelNonResponse 
##                       0.34426                       2.13411                       0.98387

This says that people were twice as likely to respond to Jeff’s email in the CIVIL (versus UNCIVIL) condition. But they were just as likely to respond in the uncivil condition as the nonresponse condition.

For those who did respond, how did they rate their response?

Means

Effect sizes and differences