Global Many Labs Cooperation Project: Call for collaborators
Last call for collaborators for the Global Many Labs Cooperation Project
Intergroup conflict is one of the greatest challenges of modern society (Cohen & Insko, 2008). The distinction between 'us' and 'them' can be rooted in political ideologies and serve as the foundation of intergroup conflict (Haidt, 2012; Lakoff, 2016; Orian Harel et al., 2020). We recently collaborated in a recent mega-study conducted in the United States, where several interventions effectively reduced partisan animosity between conservatives and liberals and increased support for democracy—and the effects persisted for several weeks (Voelkel et al., 2022).
We are now part of a global study that aims to expand these findings around the globe. Specifically, we will investigating how several interventions impact behavioral indicators of cooperation, social distance, and interconnectivity, as well as the extent to which individual traits influence these outcomes on political polarized individuals. We also plan to measure other key traits that could be relevant to intergroup conflict, such as morality, intellectual humility, collective narcissism, and others.
In this call for collaborators, we invite researchers from around the world to help us conduct this study. We aim to recruit 1,500 participants in each country. Collaborators' invaluable contributions to this project would involve:
Facilitating the translation and adaptation of interventions to align with your cultural context. This entails translating scripts and texts, securing six people who represent the demographic characteristics of your nation to record video interventions, and ensuring technical capabilities for Zoom call recordings, which may be required for certain interventions.
Conducting a meticulous back-translation process for the set of questionnaires and instruments employed in the study. The back-translation of questionnaires will maintain consistency across all participating countries, thereby ensuring the integrity of our data collection process.
Funding (fully or partially) the data collection. We have a limited budget to support collaborators who are unable to fund this themselves, but we encourage those who can to assist others in this cooperative effort.
Helping with analysis, editing, and writing throughout the publication process.
Since we plan to submit this project as a registered report (target journal: Nature or Nature Human Behaviour), our specific methods, plans, and timeline may change pending reviewer comments.
On May 24th, we shared an initial call for collaborators via social media to gather researchers interested in joining us in this journey. About 170 researchers have already indicated interest in helping us to conduct this study in 43 countries. All participating countries are marked in the world map below (in blue). We are especially interested in collaborators from the other nations (in light grey):
This project is led by Bruna E. F. Mota and the head PI team is composed of Ana Luísa Freitas, Beatriz Bezerra de Souza, Ruth Lyra Romero, Waldir M. Sampaio, and Fernanda Naomi Pantaleão, from the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (SCN Lab) at Mackenzie Presbyterian University and the National Institute of Science and Technology on Social and Affective Neuroscience (INCT-SANI, CNPq - Brazil). We have worked together alongside Jay Van Bavel (New York University), Robb Willer (Stanford University), and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University). This study is supervised by Paulo Boggio (SCN Lab and INCT-SANI).
To join the Global Many Lab Cooperation Project, fill out this short survey ASAP. If you have any queries, please contact us: manylabscooperation@gmail.com
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