Gender
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Age
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What is your primary cultural or racial identification?
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Where did you live currently? (please enter a zip code or postal code)
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In what country did you live now?
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Where did you spend most of your youth? (please enter a zip code or postal code)
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In what country did you spend most of your youth?
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The following questions refer to the reactions people have when interacting with others. Please indicate how YOU react to these events by choosing a number from the following scale. Please base your answers on how YOU react, not on how you think others react or how you think a person should react. For the following questions, please select a number which most closely matches how you feel. Remember that there are no right or wrong answers! - Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Neither disagree nor agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
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If I have something to say, I don't hesitate to say it.
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It often takes me a while to figure out how to express myself.
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If I disagree with someone, I tend to wait until later to say something.
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I always say what's on my mind.
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Sometimes I just don't know what to say to people.
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I never have a problem saying what I think.
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When emotions are involved, it's difficult for me to argue my opinion.
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I speak my mind as soon as a thought enters my head.
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The following questions refer to how you feel about yourself. Please indicate how you feel about yourself by choosing a number from the following scale. Please base your answers on how you feel about yourself, and not on how you wish you felt about yourself or how you think a person should feel about himself or herself.- Not at all characteristic
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- Somewhat characteristic
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- Moderately characteristic
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- Very characteristic
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- Completely characteristic
I am: |
Kind and Affectionate
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Critical and Judgmental
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Controlling and Dominant
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Moody
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Tolerant and Accepting
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Patient
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Witty and Humorous
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Complaining
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Warm
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| This part of the questionnaire has to do with your attitudes about some social groups. For the first 9 questions below, you should rate the specific group relative to people in general from all over the world. |
A. Members of your group of friends.
Please rate how you see your group of friends relative to people in general. For example, if you think members of your group of friends are more intelligent than most people, you would select upper 50% or another number in the upper percentiles. However, if you think, that your group of friends is less intelligent than most people in general, you would select lower 50%, or another number in the lower percentiles. Please select only one. |
On the characteristic of Intelligent, my friends are in the...
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On the characteristic of Hardworking, my friends are in the...
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On the characteristic of Submissive, my friends are in the...
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On the characteristic of Creative, my friends are in the...
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On the characteristic of Friendly, my friends are in the...
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On the characteristic of Angry, my friends are in the...
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On the characteristic of Humorous, my friends are in the...
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On the characteristic of Emotional, my friends are in the...
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On the characteristic of Intolerant, my friends are in the...
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B. Americans
Please rate your perceptions of Americans, relative to people in general across the world. For example, if you think that Americans are more intelligent than most people, you would select upper 50% or number in the upper percentiles. However, if you think, that Americans are less intelligent than most people in general, you would select lower 50%, or another number in the lower percentiles. Please select only one. |
On the characteristic of Intelligent, Americans are in the...
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On the characteristic of Hardworking, Americans are in the...
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On the characteristic of Submissive, Americans are in the...
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On the characteristic of Creative, Americans are in the...
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On the characteristic of Friendly, Americans are in the...
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On the characteristic of Angry, Americans are in the...
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On the characteristic of Humorous, Americans are in the...
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On the characteristic of Emotional, Americans are in the...
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On the characteristic of Intolerant, Americans are in the...
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C. Yourself:
This time, you should rate yourself, relative to other people your own age.
For example, if you think that you are at least as intelligent other people your own age; you would select upper 50% or higher, indicating that you are more intelligent than about 50% of people your own age. However, if you think that other people your own age are more hardworking than you, you would circle lower 50% or lower, indicating that 50% or more of people your own age are more hardworking than you. Please select only one. |
On the characteristic of Intelligent, You are in the...
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On the characteristic of Hardworking, You are in the...
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On the characteristic of Submissive, You are in the...
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On the characteristic of Creative, You are in the...
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On the characteristic of Friendly, You are in the...
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On the characteristic of Angry, You are in the...
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On the characteristic of Humorous, You are in the...
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On the characteristic of Emotional, You are in the...
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On the characteristic of Intolerant, You are in the...
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| Thinking about the last question (what do you think about yourself), please, rate how certain you are of the ratings you made about yourself. For example, if you are very certain of the rating you gave for a rating, you would answer 9 or 10. If you are completely uncertain about a rating, you would answer 1 or 2. |
Intelligent
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Hardworking
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Creative
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Sociable
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Friendly
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Intolerant
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Submissive
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Angry
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Humorous
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Emotional
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Now, we are going to ask you to think about two groups: your friends and America. We will ask you to indicate your perception of the relationship between yourself and each of the two groups, using the following set of pictures: For each question, select your answer by clicking on the button below the approriate image. |
Your friends
Which picture best describes how you see yourself and your group of friends?
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America
Which picture best describes how you see yourself and America?
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For the next set of questions, we are going to focus on one of the groups that we have been asking about above.
The rest of the questions that we are going to ask from now on are referring to your group of friends.
We are all members of different social groups. We would like you to consider your membership to a particular group: Friends. Please respond to the following statements on the basis on how you feel about this group and your membership in it. - Never
- Seldom
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very Often
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When someone criticizes my friends, it feels like a personal insult
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I am very interested in what other people think about my friends
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When I talk about my friends, I usually say "we" rather than "They"
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My friends' successes are my successes
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When someone praises my friends, it feels like a personal compliment
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If the newspaper ran a story that was critical of my friends, I would feel embarrassed
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Now we would like to ask several questions about your feelings about your friends. We will be asking these questions in two ways.
First, we would like that you answer how much you personally agree with each statement.
Second, we would like that you answer how much you think that other members of your group of friends would agree with each statement.
Please use the following scale to answer the following questions: - Completely disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Disagree a little
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Agree a little
- Somewhat agree
- Completely agree
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I see my friends as I do because this group cares about its members
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Other members of my group of friends see my friends as they do because this group cares about its members
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I can't even imagine being a member of a different group
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Other members of my group of friends can't even imagine being a member of a different group
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Being a member of my group of friends makes me feel good about myself
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Being a member of my group of friends makes other members feel good about themselves
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What would you do for your friends? |
Sacrifice your life if it saved another friend's life?
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Sacrifice your life if it saved many friends' lives
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Sacrifice your life if it gave your friends status or monetary reward?
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Fight someone physically threatening another friend?
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Fight someone insulting or making fun of your group of friends as a whole?
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Help others get revenge on someone who insulted your group of friends?
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What would most other members do for your group of friends? |
Sacrifice their life if it saved another friend's life?
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Sacrifice their life if it saved many friends' lives?
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Sacrifice their life if it gave your friends status or monetary reward?
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Fight someone physically threatening another friend?
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Fight someone insulting or making fun of your group of friends as a whole?
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Help others get revenge on someone who insulted your group of friends?
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Additional Questions |
I feel obligated to do what my friends decide to do, even when I disagree
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I have a great deal of respect for people who devote their lives to helping their friends who are less fortunate than they
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Hurting other people is acceptable if it means protecting my friends
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I would do anything to protect my friends
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I feel outraged when I see that my friends are not getting treated fairly
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My friends are always right
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Regardless of what my friends might do, if you have a problem with one of them, you have a problem with me
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I feel that my friends reflect my values
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If my friends keep united, it doesn't matter that something bad might happen to me personally.
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