A preregistered direct replication of the linguistic frame effect on perceived blame and financial liability
This repository contains the scripts and cleaned data files used in a replication attempt of: Fausey, C. M., Boroditsky, L. (2010). Subtle linguistic cues influence perceived blame and financial liability. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 17, 644–650. https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.17.5.644
The associated Open Science Framework project is: https://osf.io/jmknw/
Variable names are shared between files:
respondent_id
: SurveyMonkey's internal participant IDcollector_id
: SurveyMonkey's internal "data collector" IDstart_date
: the datetime at which the questionnaire was accessedend_date
: the datetime at which the questionnaire was finishedinformed_consent
: has the participant given an informed consent to participation. {TRUE
,FALSE
}. Should beTRUE
for everyone.experimental_situation
: specific to study_1X. whether the participant read the agentive or the nonagentive description of the event. {agentive
,nonagentive
,NA
if an experimental situation wasn't assigned, i.e. if the participant quit}assess_blame
: specific to study_1X. the participants' assessment of the blame of the subject of the described event. should be {1, 2, ..., 7,NA
}assess_fine
: the fine that the participants' assigned to the subject of the described event. lower bound should be 0, upper bound is defined by exclusion criteria outlined in the paper;NA
if participant did not respondassess_active_role
: the participants' assessment of the extent to which the subject of the described event played an active role in starting the fire. this is a manipulation check. should be {1, 2, ..., 7,NA
}age
: the participants stated age. lower bound is 0, upper bound was not definedgender
: the participants stated gender. differs between studies (sorry!)- study_1a: {
woman
,man
,I do not want to disclose
,other
,NA
} - study_1b: {
Female
,Male
,Other
,NA
} - study_2a & study_2b: {
female
,male
,I prefer not to answer
,other
,NA
}
- study_1a: {
agency
: specific to study_2X. has the participant read the agentive or the nonagentive description of the event. {nonagentive
,agentive
,NA
if they quit}blame_level
: specific to study_2X. the level of blame set for the subject of the described event. {1
,4
,7
,NA
if they quit}collector_number
: specific to study_2a. SurveyMonkey's internal collector number.recently_participated_similar
: specific to study_2a. whether the participant participated in a similar study recently. {1
is no,2
is yes,NA
if unanswered}
The directory structure is displayed below.
All files related to the analyses are in the analyses
folder.
renv/
contains files needed by the R package {renv}
.
helpers/
contains R scripts with helpers functions used for generating certain
statistics, plots, and tables.
reports/
contains the .Rmd
files for the methods and analyses sections of
the paper.
study_XX/
folders contain the cleaned data files (files used in the analyses;
data/clean/*.csv
) and wrangling scripts (wrangling/*.R
) for each of the four
studies.
.
├── analyses
│ ├── helpers
│ │ ├── plots.R
│ │ ├── stats.R
│ │ └── tables.R
│ ├── Makefile
│ ├── renv
│ │ ├── activate.R
│ │ └── settings.dcf
│ ├── renv.lock
│ ├── reports
│ │ ├── analyses_plots_create.R
│ │ ├── analyses_plots_extract.sed
│ │ ├── analyses_plots_save.py
│ │ ├── analyses.Rmd
│ │ └── methods.Rmd
│ ├── study_1a
│ │ ├── data
│ │ │ ├── clean
│ │ │ │ └── study_1a.csv
│ │ │ └── raw
│ │ │ └── survey
│ │ │ └── study_1a_data.xlsx
│ │ └── wrangling
│ │ ├── study_1a_clean.R
│ │ └── study_1a_prepare-analysis-data.R
│ ├── study_1b
│ │ ├── data
│ │ │ ├── clean
│ │ │ │ └── study_1b.csv
│ │ │ └── raw
│ │ │ ├── prolific
│ │ │ │ ├── study_1b_prolific_pt1.csv
│ │ │ │ └── study_1b_prolific_pt2.csv
│ │ │ └── survey
│ │ │ ├── study_1b_data_pt1.xlsx
│ │ │ └── study_1b_data_pt2.xlsx
│ │ └── wrangling
│ │ ├── study_1b_clean.R
│ │ ├── study_1b_merge.R
│ │ └── study_1b_prepare-analysis-data.R
│ ├── study_2a
│ │ ├── data
│ │ │ ├── clean
│ │ │ │ └── study_2a.csv
│ │ │ └── raw
│ │ │ └── survey
│ │ │ └── study_2a_data.sav
│ │ └── wrangling
│ │ ├── study_2a_clean.R
│ │ └── study_2a_prepare-analysis-data.R
│ └── study_2b
│ ├── data
│ │ ├── clean
│ │ │ └── study_2b.csv
│ │ └── raw
│ │ ├── prolific
│ │ │ ├── study_2b_prolific_pt1.csv
│ │ │ └── study_2b_prolific_pt2.csv
│ │ └── survey
│ │ ├── study_2b_data_pt1.xlsx
│ │ └── study_2b_data_pt2.xlsx
│ └── wrangling
│ ├── study_2b_clean.R
│ ├── study_2b_merge.R
│ └── study_2b_prepare-analysis-data.R
└── README.md