trolley: Codebook for the processed datafile

In marton-balazs-kovacs/trolleyMultilabReplication: Analyses for the PSA006 Moral Thinking Across the World Multilab Replication Project

Codebook for the processed datafile

Description

This datafile contains the codebook for the processed data of the PSA006 Trolley multilab replication.

Usage

trolley

Format

A dataframe with 27502 rows and 152 variables:

survey_name

character, Either "PSA006_Eastern", "PSA006_Southern", or "PSA006_Western". The distinction is only important because of the materials.

survey_id

character, Unique id corresponding to the survey_name.

StartDate

date, Datetime at the start of the completition of the survey.

EndDate

date, Datetime at the end of the completition of the survey.

ResponseId

character, Unique indetifier of the respondent.

trolley_1_resp

integer, Response for the trolley footbridge pole dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for no".

trolley_1_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the trolley footbridge pole dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

trolley_1_just

character, Justification for the trolley footbridge pole dilemma.

trolley_2_resp

integer, Response for the trolley footbridge switch dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

trolley_2_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the trolley footbridge switch dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

trolley_2_just

character, Justification for the trolley footbridge switch dilemma.

trolley_3_resp

integer, Response for the trolley standard switch dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

trolley_3_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the trolley standard switch dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

trolley_3_just

character, Justification for the trolley standard switch dilemma.

trolley_4_resp

integer, Response for the trolley standard footbridge dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

trolley_4_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the trolley standard footbridge dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

trolley_4_just

character, Justification for the trolley standard footbridge dilemma.

trolley_5_resp

integer, Response for the trolley loop dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

trolley_5_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the trolley loop dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

trolley_5_just

character, Justification for the trolley loop dilemma.

trolley_6_resp

integer, Response for the trolley obstacle collide dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

trolley_6_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the trolley obstacle collide dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

trolley_6_just

character, Justification for the trolley obstacle collide dilemma.

speedboat_1_resp

integer, Response for the speedboat footbridge pole dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

speedboat_1_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the speedboat footbridge pole dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

speedboat_1_just

character, Justification for the speedboat footbridge pole dilemma.

speedboat_2_resp

integer, Response for the speedboat footbridge switch dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

speedboat_2_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the speedboat footbridge switch dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

speedboat_2_just

character, Justification for the speedboat footbridge switch dilemma.

speedboat_3_resp

integer, Response for the speedboat standard switch dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

speedboat_3_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the speedboatstandard switch dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

speedboat_3_just

character, Justification for the speedboat standard switch dilemma.

speedboat_4_resp

integer, Response for the speedboat standard footbridge dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

speedboat_4_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the speedboat standard footbridge dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

speedboat_4_just

character, Justification for the speedboat standard footbridge dilemma.

speedboat_5_resp

integer, Response for the speedboat loop dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

speedboat_5_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the speedboat loop dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

speedboat_5_just

character, Justification for the speedboat loop dilemma.

speedboat_6_resp

integer, Response for the speedboat obstacle collide dilemma. Either 1 for "yes" or 2 for "no".

speedboat_6_rate

integer, Rating of moral acceptability for the speedboat obstacle collide dilemma. Using 9 point Likert-type scale, 1 is "Completely unacceptable" while 9 is "Completely acceptable".

speedboat_6_just

character, Justification for the speedboat obstacle collide dilemma.

trolley_attention

integer, Response to the trolley attention check question. Respondent had to choose the description of the presented trolley dilemma. Correct responses can be found in the package system data at "R/sysdata.rda" named "correct_answers".

speedboat_attention

integer, Response to the speedboat attention check question. Respondent had to choose the description of the presented speedboat dilemma. Correct responses can be found in the package system data at "R/sysdata.rda" named "correct_answers".

confusion

integer, Wheter the respondent found the materials confusing. 1 is "I did not find the material on the preceding pages confusing.", 2 is "I found some of the material on the preceding pages confusing at first, but after reading the material carefully and examining the diagram I felt that I understood the material well enough to give reasonable answers to the questions I was asked.", while 3 is "By the time I answered the questions on the preceding page, I was still somewhat confused by the material. I do not think I understood this material well enough to give reasonable answers to the questions I was asked.".

disbelief

integer, Whether the respondent found the materials believable. 1 is "I found the description from the preceding pages to be rather realistic.", 2 is "I did not find the description from the preceding pages to be completely realistic, but I “suspended disbelief” and responded under the assumption that it was completely accurate. More specifically, I assumed that Joe’s (or John's) action (or inaction) would affect the situation as the description said it would.", and 3 is "I did not find the description from the preceding pages to be realistic, and my answers reflect my inability to take seriously the description that was given.".

familiarity

integer, Familiarity with the task from 1 to 5, where 1 is "absolutely not familiar" and 5 is "absolutely familiar".

careless_1

integer, Response to question to the first question to check carelessness. Correct response 2.

careless_2

integer, Response to question to the second question to check carelessness. Correct response 2.

careless_3

integer, Response to question to the third question to check carelessness. Correct response 1.

household_income

numeric, Household income of the respondent in 2019.

currency_1

character, Currency of the participants income.

living_area

character, Living area of the respondent where 1 is "Rural" and 2 is "Urban".

oxford_utilitarian_1

integer, First item of the Oxford utilitarian scale. 1 is "Strongly disagree" and 7 is "Strongly agree".

individualism_scale_1

integer, First item of the Individualism scale. 1 is "Never of definitely no" while 9 is "Always or definitely yes".

religious_rate

integer, How religious is the respondent from 1 "absolutely not" to 10 "very".

religion_[1-16]

integer, Whether the respondent indicated that they are followers of the listed religion. 1 - Agnostic, 2 - Atheist, 3 - Baha'i, 4 - Buddhist, 5 - Chinese Traditional, 6 - Christian, 7 - Christian (specifically Catholic), 8 - Christian (specifically Protestant), 9 - Hindu, 10 - Humanist, 11 - Jewish, 12 - Muslim, 13 - No religion, 14 - Sikh, 15 - Taoist, 16 - Other, please specify

education_leve

integer, Highest level of education. 1 is "Below high school", 2 is "High school", 3 is "Bachelor's degree", 4 is "Master's degree", 5 is "Doctoral degree". The labels can differ for certian countries but these are recorded in separate variables. Levels higher than 2 are considered as higher education.

education_level_germ

integer, Highest level of education in the German system. 1 is "Abschluss ohne Abitur/Matura", 2 is "Abitur/Matura", 3 is "Realschulabschluss", 4 is "Hauptschulabschluss", 5 is "Bachelor-Abschluss", 6 is "Master-Abschluss", 7 is "Promotion", 8 is "Habilitation". Levels higher than 4 are considered as higher education.

age_1

integer, Age of the respondent, minimum 18. To calculate the actual age of the respondent 17 should be added to the value.

sex

integer, Sex of the respondent. 1 - Male; 2 - Female; 3 - Other; 4 - I wish not to answer.

countr_origin_1

character, Origin country of the respondent.

immigrant_back

integer, Is the respondent from an immigrant background, with 1 "Yes" and 2 "No".

technical_problems

integer, Whether the respondent had technical problems during survey completition. 1 is "No" while 2 is "Yes".

technical_problems_2_TEXT

character, Description of the technical problem.

further_comments

character, Further comments by the respondent.

native_language

integer, Was the study presented in the primary language of the respondent with 1 as "Yes" and 2 as "No"

fluency

integer, Is the respondent fluent in the language of the survey with 1 as "Yes" and 2 as "No".

Q_Lang

character, Language of the survey. Value-key mapping of the variable: English (US) - EN, Argentinian Spanish - ES-ARG, Bahasa Indonesia - INDO, Brazilian Portuguese - PT-BR, Bulgarian - BG, Chilean Spanish - CHI, Chinese (Simplified) - ZH-S, Colombian Spanish - COL-ESP, Czech - CS, Dutch - NL, Ecuadorian Spanish - ES-EC, España - ESP-ESP, French - FR, German - DE, Greek - EL, Hrvatski - CR, Hungarian - HU, Italian - IT, Japanese - JA, Macedonian - MK, Mexican Spanish - ES-MX, Persian - FA, Peruvian Spanish - ES-PE, Polish - PL, Portuguese - PT, Romanian - RO, Russian - RU, Salvador Spanish - ESP-SAL, Slovak - SK, Spanish - ES-ES, Thai - TH, Turkish - TR, Српски - SERB

lab

character, Unique identifier of the lab collecting the given response.

attention

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scenario1

character, Which dilemma was shown to the respondent first. Added during data cleaning.

scenario2

character, Which dilemma was shown to the respondent second. Added during data cleaning.

country3

character, ISO3 country code of the respondents' country.

Region

character, Which world region the respondents' country belongs to.

Age

integer, Recoded age value during data cleaning.

Gender

character, Renamed "sex" variable during data cleaning. Renaming was a mistake, the variable contains the sex and NOT the gender of the respondents.

Higher education

character, Recoded values of the "education_leve" variable during data cleaning.

include_nocareless

logical, TRUE if respondent passed the carelesness test and FALSE if dont

include_noconfusion

logical, TRUE if respondent passed the confusion test and FALSE if dont

include_nofamiliarity

logical, TRUE if respondent was not familiar with the task and FALSE if they were

include_notechproblem

logical, TRUE if respondent had no technical problem and FALSE if they had

include_nonativelang

logical, TRUE if respondent filled out the survey in their native language and FALSE if dont

include_noproblem

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all the exclusion criteria (i.e. carelessness, confusion, familiarity, technical probelem, and native language check) and FALSE if dont

include_withoutfamiliarity

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all exclusion criteria except familiarity does not matter and FALSE if dont

include_familiar

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all exclusion criteria but only including respondents who were familiar with the tasks and FALSE if dont

include_study1a_attention

logical, TRUE if respondent passed the attention check for study1a but non of the other attention check applied and FALSE if dont

include_study1b_attention

logical, TRUE if respondent passed the attention check for study1b but non of the other attention check applied and FALSE if dont

include_study1a

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study1a and FALSE if dont

include_study1b

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study1b and FALSE if dont

include_study1a_withoutfamiliarity

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study1a but familiarity does not matter and FALSE if dont

include_study1b_withoutfamiliarity

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study1b but familiarity does not matter and FALSE if dont

include_study1a_familiar

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study1a but only including respondents familiar with the task and FALSE if dont

include_study1b_familiar

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study1b but only including respondents familiar with the task and FALSE if dont

include_study2a_attention

logical, TRUE if respondent passed the attention check for study2a but non of the other attention check applied and FALSE if dont

include_study2b_attention

logical, TRUE if respondent passed the attention check for study1b but non of the other attention check applied and FALSE if dont

include_study2a

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study2a and FALSE if dont

include_study2b

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study2b and FALSE if dont

include_study2a_withoutfamiliarity

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study2a but familiarity does not matter and FALSE if dont

include_study2b_withoutfamiliarity

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study2b but familiarity does not matter and FALSE if dont

include_study2a_familiar

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study2a but only including respondents familiar with the task and FALSE if dont

include_study2b_familiar

logical, TRUE if respondent passed all of the checks including the attention check for study2b but only including respondents familiar with the task and FALSE if dont

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