Comparing In-Person, Sona, and Mechanical Turk Measurements of Three Prejudice-Relevant Constructs

Gamblin, Bradlee W.; Winslow, Matthew P.; Lindsay, Benjamin; Newsom, Andrew W.; Kehn, Andre

doi:10.1007/s12144-015-9403-1

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“…MTurk provides a rapidly recruited diverse, community-based sample of participants (Paolacci, Chandler, & Ipeirotis, 2010). MTurk is economical, and the data quality obtained is equal to, and often more valid than, data obtained through traditional research methods (Buhrmester, Kwang, & Gosling, 2011; Paolacci et al, 2010), even when questions are sensitive in nature (e.g., Gamblin, Winslow, Lindsay, Newsom, & Kehn, 2017). Test–retest reliability has been established (Buhrmester et al, 2011), and MTurk participants are attentive to experimenter instructions (Berinsky, Huber, & Lenz, 2012).…”

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Distrustful, Conventional, Entitled, and Dysregulated: PID-5 Personality Facets Predict Hostile Masculinity and Sexual Violence in Community Men

Russell

King

2017

J Interpers Violence

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Psychopathy and narcissism are known predictors of sexual violence, but they are broad personality constructs with limited utility in intervention and prevention efforts. The Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) assesses 25 specific personality facets residing in five higher order domains. The goal of this research was to test the PID-5 in a sexual aggression model, which also included hostile masculinity, juvenile delinquency, and five sexual assault indices. A nationwide sample of adult men ( N = 512) completed the online survey. Hostile masculinity and juvenile delinquency were expected to have direct paths to sexual violence in a structural equation model. Hostile masculinity was also hypothesized as a mediator between sexual violence and PID-5 facets related to narcissism and psychopathy. These hypotheses were largely supported. Overall, 29.5% of men reported perpetrating sexual violence at least once, and 24.2% reported multiple assaults. In the sexually violent sample, 45.7% endorsed completed rape as their most severe act. PID-5 Suspiciousness, Cognitive and Perceptual Dysregulation, Grandiosity, and a lack of Eccentricity emerged as indirect predictors of sexual violence. These PID-5 facets were mediated by hostile masculinity, which had a reliable path to sexual violence. Juvenile delinquency had a direct and indirect path to sexual assault. The model accounted for 48% of the variance in latent sexual violence, and the five sexual violence index Rs ranged from .53 to .82. This research adds specificity to sexual violence models by demonstrating the underlying maladaptive personality trait structures associated with sexual assault. It also provides a more precise personality profile for clinical use and prevention programs.

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Distrustful, Conventional, Entitled, and Dysregulated: PID-5 Personality Facets Predict Hostile Masculinity and Sexual Violence in Community Men

Russell

King

2017

J Interpers Violence

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“… 2. Undergraduate students enrolled in introductory, statistics, and methods courses in Criminal Justice and Psychology were registered with the Sona Systems participant pool management tool (see Gamblin et al 2017). Students were able to complete several different research studies in order to fulfill a research requirement constituting 5 percent of their course grade.…”

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Perceived Control, Severity, Certainty, and Emotional Fear: Testing an Expanded Model of Deterrence

Roche

Wilson

Pickett

2019

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Objectives: Growing evidence indicates that criminologists should incorporate emotional states, such as fear, into standard deterrence frameworks. Within the fear of crime literature, there is empirical support for the “sensitivity to risk” model, which posits perceived victimization control and severity drive certainty perceptions, and these cognitions, in turn, drive fear of crime. We apply this logic to offender decision-making. Methods: Using a sample of young adults ( N = 829), an anonymous online survey, and path analysis, this study investigates an expanded model of deterrence. Results: Perceived control over apprehension directly reduced perceptions of the certainty of being apprehended. Perceived severity was both directly and indirectly, through perceived certainty, associated with greater fear of apprehension. Fear of apprehension is negatively associated with reported criminal propensity, and the effects of cognitive judgments of control, severity, and certainty have an indirect effect on reported criminal propensity via fear of apprehension. Conclusions: Our findings illustrate the need to better understand the psychological and emotional aspects of deterrence. Individuals do not simply consult their preformed certainty perceptions when considering crime. Identifying all of the relevant cognitions and the emotions is critical for advancing criminological theories and improving crime policies.

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“…Participants were recruited online through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and paid US$0.40 for their participation. Although there are some questions surrounding the representativeness and quality of MTurk data (Paolacci, Chandler, & Ipeirotis, 2010), the literature generally supports MTurk samples as a reliable and equivalent alternative to in person data collection methodologies both overall (Buhrmester, Kwang, & Gosling, 2011; Levay, Freese, & Druckman, 2016) and when measuring explicit prejudice (Gamblin, Winslow, Lindsay, Newsom, & Kehn, 2016).…”

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A Comparison of Juror Decision Making in Race-Based and Sexual Orientation–Based Hate Crime Cases

Gamblin

Kehn

Vanderzanden

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J Interpers Violence

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Several constructs have been identified as relevant to the juror decision-making process in hate crime cases. However, there is a lack of research on the relationships between these constructs and their variable influence across victim group. The purpose of the current study was to reexamine factors relevant to the juror decision-making process in hate crime cases within a structural model, and across victim group, to gauge the relative strength and explanatory power of various predictors. In the current study, 313 participants sentenced a perpetrator found guilty of a hate crime committed against either a Black man or a gay man; participants also responded to individual difference measures relevant to mock juror hate crime decision making, including prejudice toward the victim's social group. Using path analysis, we explored the role of juror prejudice on sentencing decisions in hate crime cases as well as similarities and differences based on the victimized group. Results indicated that, when the victim was a Black man, modern racism influenced sentencing both directly and indirectly through perpetrator blame attributions, explaining 18% of the variance in sentencing. In contrast, when the victim was a gay man, modern homophobia did not directly predict sentencing, and the overall model explained only 4% of the variance in sentencing, suggesting variables beyond juror prejudice may be better suited to explain juror decision making in sexual orientation-based hate crimes. The current study suggests that the role of juror prejudice in hate crime cases varies as a function of the victimized group and raises questions about the importance of juror prejudice in the sentencing of hate crime cases, particularly antigay prejudice. The importance of blame attributions, social dominance orientation, and juror beliefs regarding penalty enhancements for hate crime cases, as well as policy implications, are also addressed.

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Comparing In-Person, Sona, and Mechanical Turk Measurements of Three Prejudice-Relevant Constructs

Cited by 13 publications

References 42 publications

Distrustful, Conventional, Entitled, and Dysregulated: PID-5 Personality Facets Predict Hostile Masculinity and Sexual Violence in Community Men

Distrustful, Conventional, Entitled, and Dysregulated: PID-5 Personality Facets Predict Hostile Masculinity and Sexual Violence in Community Men

Perceived Control, Severity, Certainty, and Emotional Fear: Testing an Expanded Model of Deterrence

A Comparison of Juror Decision Making in Race-Based and Sexual Orientation–Based Hate Crime Cases

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