'Collective Action Ukraine – Study 1'
(AsPredicted #89,241)
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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?
RQ: Are anger, anxiety, and sympathy related to different forms of collective action?

H1: Anger experienced due to the current situation in Ukraine will predict intentions to engage in confrontational collective action (i.e., to confront politicians about their actions).
H2: Anxiety experienced due to the current situation in Ukraine will predict intentions to engage in resolution oriented collective action (i.e., actions directly aimed at deterring further aggression).
H3: Sympathy with Ukrainians will predict intentions to engage in solidarity-related collective action (i.e., support for humanitarian aid).

3) Describe the key dependent variable(s) specifying how they will be measured.
confrontational collective action: readiness to show 5 behaviors related to confronting German politicians and Putin about their past actions
resolution-oriented collective action: readiness to show 4 actions aimed at convincing the German government to endorse (harsher) sanctions against Russia to deter further violence
solidarity-related collective action: readiness to show 5 actions aimed at personally granting help/convincing the German government to grant help to the Ukrainian people

4) How many and which conditions will participants be assigned to?
No conditions; Assessed IV: extent of anger, anxiety, and sympathy participants experience related to the situation in Ukraine, each assessed with 5 items.

5) Specify exactly which analyses you will conduct to examine the main question/hypothesis.
We will average items assessing anger, anxiety, and sympathy to form separate scales.
We will subject the 14 items assessing collective action intentions to an exploratory factor analysis to test whether the assumed three factors are present. Items with substantial cross-loadings will be dropped from the scales, but we will ensure that each of the final scales consists of at least 2 items.
H1-3 will be tested via regression analyses in which all three emotions are entered simultaneously as predictors of confrontational, resolution oriented, and solidarity-based collective action, respectively.

6) Describe exactly how outliers will be defined and handled, and your precise rule(s) for excluding observations.
Inclusion criteria:
- Ukrainian or Russian migration background
- having friends or family in Ukraine or Russia
- passed attention check (ticked the appropriate box where indicated)
- completed survey honestly, attentively, in one go, and only once (self-reported)
- non-suspicious answering behavior (did not take less than 3 min to complete)
- post-survey comments do not mention trouble understanding the items
- study subject is not psychology (lab rule)

Any data from Ps who wish to withdraw their data after the debriefing will be deleted according to ethical guidelines. We will carefully check (& report) if excluding Ps not fulfilling the inclusion criteria changes the results.
Outliers: No outliers will be excluded

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.
An a-priori Power analysis using G*Power suggests that to test for a small increase in Rsq (fsq=0.02) with 80% power (alpha=0.05), 395 participants are required (3 predictors total, 1 tested predictor). Therefore, we aim at recruiting 400 participants to be able to account for necessary exclusions.

8) Anything else you would like to pre-register?
(e.g., secondary analyses, variables collected for exploratory purposes, unusual analyses planned?)
Additional variables: additional emotions (incl. pride, guilt, shame, hope); moral acceptability of actions; perceived efficacy of actions; support for actions (independent of own participation)