Tyler Ballweg Ashley Lee Morgan McLinden Asking for Directions Tyler Ballweg Ashley Lee Morgan McLinden

Study Design Three different locations Three different conditions Union South to Noland, SAC to Grainger, College Library to Humanities Three different conditions Control - White majority (n=36) Minority - White with hijab (n=36) Minority - Asian (n=36) We focused on campus buildings and destination would be one or two blocks away from the location. Relatively close and not a long distance to walk, so we do not set too much constraints for We conducted three conditions at each location.

Measures Willingness to help Participant demographics Giving directions Duration of conversation Participant demographics Gender Race/Ethnicity Giving directions - measured with two questions And the length of conversation that we assumed as participants’ effort to engage in helping behavior.

Procedure “Excuse me. I’m trying to find _____. Would you be able to help me with directions?” “I’m still confused. Do you think you could take me there?” Explain what counted as a yes (don’t know followed by help as well as just as yes response)

Hypotheses Expected participants to be more willing to help in White condition than in Muslim or Asian condition Participants more likely to take White confederate to destination Participants more likely to spend more time helping White confederate Overall hypotheses and then specific hypotheses

Participants 108 Pp (62 F) Tried to only test students Those who were not in groups and without earplugs 62 F, 46 M; selected by looking up from phone and first person seen

Results No significant results found. Chi-Square: p = .38 for across all conditions, not including “don’t knows” (n=88); p = .17 for white and hijab (n=56); p = .70 for asian and white (n=60) ANOVA: p =.41 for mean difference in conversation length across all three conditions (n=108) We did a chi-square comparing frequency of no’s across conditions and did not get a significant results. Conversation length across groups was also not significant. We did other tests comparing frequencies of conditions two at a time and found no significant results. We cannot conclude there is differential treatment between white, Muslim, and Asian women, at least in terms of the help they receive when asking for directions.

Suggestions Hijab Manipulation Different Task Ethical? Offensive? Difficulties ? - Some other incidents (at college) or one participant noticed it was an experiment Morgan-Talk about hijab manipulation. Tyler-Talk about different task