Data for: The construct validity of attitudes toward sex offenders (ATS) scale: ATS is more strongly linked to the acceptance of sex offenders than other offenders or non‐offenders

Dataset

Description

In this study 60 female members of the general public were asked to:

Complete the attitudes towards sex offenders scale (ATS; Hogue, 1993)
Indicate for 8 people (released sex, fraud, violent offenders and non-offenders) whether they would accept these people in a range of activities or situations.
In the ComibinedData folder the file recoded_ATS_LG.csv contains the combined ATS responses, including a column indicated the reverse coded response (when applicable). The following data columns are included:

Resp Response in words
Question The question asked
RespCoord Where on the screen the participant clicked (in pixels)
response_time Time between the onset of the question and the mouse click
subject_nr The subject number
Number The question number
Reverse Indicating whether the response needs to be reverse coded
score The response as a number (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree)
after_rev The response after reverse coding (6 - score when Reverse = Yes)
In the ComibinedData folder the file combined_acceptance.csv contains the combined responses from the acceptance task. The following data columns are included:

Image The image that was shown
Name The name of the person in the vignette
Question The description of the situation
Resp The response of the participant (accept = Yes)
RespCoord Where the participant clicked with the mouse in pixels
Vignette Full text of the vignette
response_time The time between onset of the vignette and the response
subject_nr Subject number
Date made available15 Aug 2023
PublisherOpen Science Framework

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