'Gender and Networking - study 2 - oct2019' (AsPredicted #29078)
Author(s) This pre-registration is currently anonymous to enable blind peer-review. It has one author.
Pre-registered on 10/11/2019 02:34 AM (PT)
1) Have any data been collected for this study already? No, no data have been collected for this study yet.
2) What's the main question being asked or hypothesis being tested in this study? Hypothesis 1a: Women engaged in network-deepening actions with their male supervisors will elicit stronger negative reaction from the audience (i.e., they will be perceived as less competent, less warm, less moral, and will be seen more stereotypically) than men engaged in network-deepening actions with their female supervisors.
Hypothesis 1b: This difference will be attenuated when the target is a colleague (vs. a supervisor).
3) Describe the key dependent variable(s) specifying how they will be measured. Perceived competence: The average of 7 scale items measured on a 7-point scale from (1) Not at all to (7) Extremely.
Perceived warmth: The average of 4 scale items measured on a 7-point scale from (1) Not at all to (7) Extremely.
Perceived morality: The average of 4 scale items measured on a 7-point scale from (1) Not at all to (7) Extremely.
Perceived stereotype: The average of 6 scale items measured on a 7-point scale from (1) Not at all to (7) Extremely.
4) How many and which conditions will participants be assigned to? Participants will be randomly assigned to one of an eight-cell between-subject design in which I manipulate three factors: Gender of the person networking (male vs. female), Gender of the target (male vs. female), and Hierarchical level of the target (same vs. upper). Participants will read a vignette corresponding to the condition they have been assigned, and will then answer the dependent measures.
5) Specify exactly which analyses you will conduct to examine the main question/hypothesis. Hypotheses 1a & 1b: I will analyze the dependent variables with an OLS regression, including as predictors the gender of the person networking, the gender of the target, the hierarchical level of the target, and all two and three-way interactions between those factors.
6) Describe exactly how outliers will be defined and handled, and your precise rule(s) for excluding observations. Manipulation checks: Participants will answer three questions to check whether they detected the conditions in which they are. Any participant failing one or more questions will be excluded prior to analysis.
Attention checks: Participants will answer three questions to check whether they attentively read the different items of the scales they must reply to. Any participant failing one or more questions will be excluded prior to analysis.
7) How many observations will be collected or what will determine sample size? No need to justify decision, but be precise about exactly how the number will be determined. I will stop data collection once 1000 participants have submitted a response on Prolific. Any small deviation from this goal will be due to the Prolific platform and outside of my control.
8) Anything else you would like to pre-register? (e.g., secondary analyses, variables collected for exploratory purposes, unusual analyses planned?) The study will include demographics questions (gender, age, country, education, work experience) to know more about my sample. Only gender of the participant will be used in exploratory analysis to investigate its potential effect.
Exploratory analysis will be run on three sub-items of the dependent variable Perceived Stereotype (referring to “flirtatious”, “seductive”, and “promiscuous”). Those items specifically refer to an image risk that might be particularly relevant to women interacting with a male supervisor and to men interacting with a female colleague.
I will also explore whether men engaged in network-deepening actions with their female colleagues elicit stronger negative reaction (are perceived as more stereotypical) from the audience than women engaged in network-deepening actions with their male colleagues, and whether this difference is attenuated when the target is a supervisor (vs. a colleague).
I will finally explore whether women undertaking network-deepening actions with their colleagues (whatever their gender) are perceived as warmer but less competent than men doing the same.
