___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 05-02-2018 last updated: 02-17-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-17-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements a computerized version of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS) by: Neville et al (2000). Construction and Initial Validation of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS). Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol. 47. No. 1,59-70. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20 6-point Likert scale questions, self-report ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 3 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'cobras.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumber/session id build: the Inquisit build q*_response: response given (in assigned values; 1-6; R-items are automatically reversed scored 1 = strongly disagree 6 = strongly agree q*_latency: how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveypage was visited) (2) Summary data file: 'cobras_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant) inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startDate: date script was run startTime: time script was started subjectid: assigned subject id number groupid: assigned group id number sessionid: assigned session id number elapsedTime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) scored on a scale from 1-6 with higher scores implying greater endorsement of color-blind racial attitudes (Reversed items are automatically reversed scored) RacialPrivilege: Range: 7-42 (1, 2, 6, 8, 12, 15, 20) InstitutionalDiscrimination: Range: 7-42 (3, 4, 9, 13, 14, 16, 18) BlatantRacialIssues: Range: 6-36 (5, 7, 10, 11, 17, 19) COBRAS_totalscore: sum of all subscale scores: Range: 20 - 120 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ QUESTIONNAIRE SET-UP ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20 6-point Likert scale questions, self-report Anchors: "Strongly disagree", "Moderately disagree", "Slightly disagree", "Slightly agree", "Moderately agree", "Strongly agree" Higher scores => greater endorsement of color-blind racial attitudes. 3 subscales of color-blind racial attitudes RacialPrivilege: the unawareness of afforded white privilege InstitutionalDiscrimination: t he unawareness of racial discrimination practiced in institutions BlatantRacialIssues: the unawareness towards the pervasiveness of racial discrimination ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment. The parameters you can change are: /pageinstructions: the instructions that appear at the top of each surveypage