Implicit Attitudes Toward Muslims and non-Muslims: Exploring the Influence of Social Media Exposure to Islamophobia and Religious Identity in the U.A.E.
Description
Dataset contains religious identity centrality score, exposure to online islamophobia score and the scores and D-scores of Implicit association test reaction times and accuracy belonging to Muslims and non-Muslims. Religion (1=Muslim, 2=Non-Muslim) and Gender (1=Male, 2=Female) are included.
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Participants were seated on individual computers in the university psychology lab to participate in the study online. The first part of the survey required general demographic questions namely age, gender, country of origin and an enquiry on prior ADHD diagnosis. The second part of survey consisting of the Exposure to Online Islamophobia Scale (Cano et al., 2021). On completion, participants were asked if they identified as Muslim or non-Muslim. Participants who chose ‘Muslim’ were directed to The Multi-Religion Identity Measure (Abu-Rayya, 2019) while participants who chose non-Muslim were shown the thank you page for finishing the survey. Participants were instructed to begin the Implicit Association Test (IAT) on completing the survey. During the IAT, participants were exposed to individual stimuli, comprising facial images and words, which were presented in random order. Eight practice stimuli were shown at the start of each session to familiarize participants with the procedure. Participants were tasked with categorizing the faces or words displayed at the center of the screen using two keys on a computer that interfaced with the computer (‘e’ & ‘i’) as seen in figure 1. Responses were collected under two distinct conditions of response association. In one association condition, participants were required to use one key to respond, "Muslim or Good" and the other key to respond "Non-Muslim or Bad". In the other association condition, these pairings were reversed, so that participants were required to use one key to respond, "Muslim or Bad" and the other key to respond "Non-Muslim or Good". Labels denoting response options for each association condition were situated in the upper left and upper right corners of the screen, corresponding to the positions of the response keys placed in front of each participant (‘e’ for left label and ‘i’ for right label). The response options were counterbalanced across the two response keys for each association condition. Following previous IAT procedures, all participants completed both response association conditions, and the order of presentation was counterbalanced across participants.
Institutions
- Heriot-Watt University DubaiDubai, Dubai