Cultural fluency - (#23068)

Author(s) Created: 05/06/2019 04:48 AM (PT) Ying Lin (The Open University of Israel) - [email protected] Public: 05/22/2019 10:37 AM (PT) Sharon Arieli (The Hebrew University of ) - [email protected] Daphna Oyserman (University of Southern California) - [email protected]

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? Focusing on Jewish Israelis who were born in Israel (i.e., native Hebrew speakers) we predict that viewing culturally fluent dishes (fresh vegetables, eggs, cheese) increases inherence relative to Israelis who view culturally disfluent breakfast dishes (cooked vegetables, meat, unique pastry) whether or not disfluency has been made explicit through warning.

3) Describe the key dependent variable(s) specifying how they will be measured. Inherence is our dependent variable; it is measured with the Inherence Heuristic Scale of Salomon & Cimpian (2014).

4) How many and which conditions will participants be assigned to? Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the three conditions. In all conditions, they are exposed to photos of breakfast dishes and are asked to rate them on quality and attractiveness (using a five-point scale, 1 = not at all, 5 = very much). In the culturally fluent condition, the photos present of raw vegetables, fresh cheeses, fresh , fried eggs. In the culturally disfluent condition, the pictures present breakfasts of cooked vegetables, meats, fried , fries. The third condition ("explicit") uses the disfluent photos and introduces them as unexpected dishes that include unexpected ingredients. Participants in this condition rate not only the attractiveness and quality of the pictures but also the extent the breakfasts are unusual. This condition is designed to diagnose whether cultural disfluency effects are undone by making disfluency explicit.

5) Specify exactly which analyses you will conduct to examine the main question/hypothesis. One-way ANOVA with inherence as the dependent variable and condition as the independent variable.

6) Describe exactly how outliers will be defined and handled, and your precise rule(s) for excluding observations. We will exclude participants who failed the attention check, are non-native Hebrew speakers, and who failed to complete the experiment. We conducted a pilot study aimed at examining what traditional Israeli breakfast consists of. As the majority of the participants mentioned dairy products and eggs, we will exclude participants being vegan or vegetarian because they may hold different views about traditional Israeli breakfasts. We thus will prescreen for native speakers and not being vegan or vegetarian.

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. A power analysis, based on our prior cultural fluency effect size of d = .34, indicates a sample of 339 participants is needed. We collect data from 350 participants in expectation of potential exclusion of participants who fail the attention check (participants are asked to choose “strongly agree” for the last item of the inherence scale.")

8) Anything else you would like to pre-register? (e.g., secondary analyses, variables collected for exploratory purposes, unusual analyses planned?) After the prime and the inherence scale, we ask two questions to measure the extent to which breakfast photos are congruent with participants’ expectations: 1. "As a whole, how traditionally Israeli were the breakfast dishes you viewed?" 2. “As a whole, how similar were the breakfasts you saw to typical Israeli breakfasts?” We also add a question afterward to fit with the explicit manipulation: “As a whole, how typical were the ingredients for Israeli breakfasts?” Next, will be two scales: Personal Need for Structure (PNS) and Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU). We plan to carry out a number of mediational analyses: traditionality (the two-item experienced traditionality), and typicality (one item experienced typicality) to see if effects are dependent on perceived traditionality and fit with expectations. We plan to conduct moderation analysis using PROCESS, to test for possible moderation of the effect of condition on inherence by PNS and/or IU.

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