TurkPrime.com: A versatile crowdsourcing data acquisition platform for the behavioral sciences

Litman, Leib; Robinson, Jonathan; Abberbock, Tzvi

doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0727-z

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“…To establish the experimental paradigm, we recruited 106 participants from the USA (mean age = 36.33 years, SD = 9.88; 34.9 females) using TurkPrime (Litman et al 2017) for a financial compensation of USD 0.80. Such channels allow researchers to recruit diverse samples and have been shown to deliver very acceptable data quality for academic research (Buhrmester et al 2011;Casler et al 2013).…”

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An Identity Perspective on Ethical Leadership to Explain Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Interplay of Follower Moral Identity and Leader Group Prototypicality

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Despite the proliferation of research on ethical leadership, there remains a limited understanding of how specifically the assumingly moral component of this leadership style affects employee behavior. Taking an identity perspective, we integrate the ethical leadership literature with research on the dynamics of the moral self-concept to posit that ethical leadership will foster a sense of moral identity among employees, which then inspires followers to adopt more ethical actions, such as increased organization citizenship behavior (OCB). We further argue that these identity effects should be more pronounced when leaders are perceived to be group prototypical, as their actions then speak louder to followers' sense of identity. Two studiesa scenario experiment with 138 participants and a field study with 225 employees-provided support for our hypothesized moderated mediation model. Perceived ethical leadership positively affected OCB via followers' moral identity but only under conditions of high perceived leader group prototypicality. We discuss how the identity pathway of ethical leadership can facilitate novel theorizing about moral transference. Our findings also suggest that, when hiring external ethical leaders or training internal managers, practitioners are well advised to consider that these individuals may only be effective in morally transforming followers when they are perceived as prototypical for the group.

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An Identity Perspective on Ethical Leadership to Explain Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Interplay of Follower Moral Identity and Leader Group Prototypicality

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“…Additionally, 252 Indian participants ranging in age from 21 to 68 years (M = 32.6, 22% female) were recruited using mTurk. TurkPrime (Litman, Robinson, & Abberbock, 2017) was used to verify that these participants were located in India.…”

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When do circumstances excuse? Moral prejudices and beliefs about the true self drive preferences for agency-minimizing explanations

Cullen

2018

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A B S T R A C TWhen explaining human actions, people usually focus on a small subset of potential causes. What leads us to prefer certain explanations for valenced actions over others? The present studies indicate that our moral attitudes often predict our explanatory preferences far better than our beliefs about how causally sensitive actions are to features of the actor's environment. Study 1 found that high-prejudice participants were much more likely to endorse nonagential explanations of an erotic same-sex encounter, such as that one of the men endured a stressful event earlier that day. Study 2 manipulated participants' beliefs about how the agent's behavior depended on features of his environment, finding that such beliefs played no clear role in modeling participants' explanatory preferences. This result emerged both with low-and high-prejudice, US and Indian participants, suggesting that these findings probably reflect a species-typical feature of human psychology. Study 3 found that moral attitudes also predicted explanations for a woman's decision to abort her pregnancy (3a) and a person's decision to convert to Islam (3b). Study 4 found that luck in an action's etiology tends to undermine perceptions of blame more readily than perceptions of praise. Finally, Study 5 found that when explaining support for a rival ideology, both Liberals and Conservatives downplay agential causes while emphasizing environmental ones. Taken together, these studies indicate that our explanatory preferences often reflect a powerful tendency to represent agents as possessing virtuous true selves. Consequently, situation-focused explanations often appear salient because people resist attributing negatively valenced actions to the true self. There is a person/situation distinction, but it is normative.

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“…Amazon Mechanical Turk has been used for collecting behavioral data for psychological experiments with positive results (Buhrmester, Kwang, & Gosling, 2011); participants have also been shown to vary in psychopathology symptoms (Shapiro, Chandler, & Mueller, 2013). Data for this study were collected through an adjunctive website, TurkPrime (Litman, Robinson, & Abberbock, 2016), which allowed us to specifically and flexibly recruit participants who were from the United States and were positively-rated respondents on Mechanical Turk. Additionally, participants in this sample were over the age of 18, were fluent in English, and provided informed consent.…”

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Determining optimal parameters of the Self Referent Encoding Task: A large-scale examination of self-referent cognition and depression

Dainer-Best¹,

Lee²,

Shumake³

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This is a post-print of a manuscript which has been published in Psychological Assessment.Although the Self-Referent Encoding Task (SRET) is commonly used to measure self-referent cognition in depression, many different SRET metrics can be obtained. The current study used best subsets regression with cross-validation and independent test samples to identify the SRET metrics most reliably associated with depression symptoms in three large samples: a college student sample (n = 572), a sample of adults from Amazon Mechanical Turk (n = 293), and an adolescent sample from a school field study (n = 270). Across all three samples, SRET metrics associated most strongly with depression severity included number of words endorsed as selfdescriptive and rate of accumulation of information required to decide whether adjectives were self-descriptive (i.e., drift rate). These metrics had strong intra-task and split-half reliability and high test-retest reliability across a 1-week period. Recall of SRET stimuli and traditional reaction time metrics were not robustly associated with depression severity.

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TurkPrime.com: A versatile crowdsourcing data acquisition platform for the behavioral sciences

Cited by 1,848 publications

References 16 publications

An Identity Perspective on Ethical Leadership to Explain Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Interplay of Follower Moral Identity and Leader Group Prototypicality

An Identity Perspective on Ethical Leadership to Explain Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Interplay of Follower Moral Identity and Leader Group Prototypicality

When do circumstances excuse? Moral prejudices and beliefs about the true self drive preferences for agency-minimizing explanations

Determining optimal parameters of the Self Referent Encoding Task: A large-scale examination of self-referent cognition and depression

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