Unidimensional Mind Perception
This is the most up to date version of this scale.
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PAPER
Tzelios, K., Williams, L. A., Omerod, J., & Bliss-Moreau, E. (2022). Evidence of the unidimensional structure of mind perception. Scientific reports, 12(1), 18978.
Construct Summary
We use the term ‘mind perception’ to capture both the granting and denial of a range of capacities to human and nonhuman entities. (p. 1)
Final Scale Items (30 total):
Specific items not listed, but these are the capacities used across the studies:
remembering
exercising self-control
acting morally
feeling hunger
feeling fear
feeling pleasure
feeling pain
feeling desire
sensing its environment
being aware of the passage of time
perceiving its surroundings
Rating = 62%
| Check? | Guideline Item |
|---|---|
| ✓ | Is the construct defined? |
| ✖ | Does the final version of the items capture the construct as it has been defined by the authors? |
| ✓ | Is the item generation process discussed (e.g., literature review, Delphi method, crowd-sourcing)? |
| ✖ | Person to items 10:1 for the initial set of items? |
| ✓ | Did they perform an EFA, PCA, Rasch, or similar test to determine the item to factor relationship? |
| ✓ | Did they describe how they determined number of factors? |
| ✓ | Did they report the full initial set of items? |
| ✓ | Did they provide loadings (EFA) or item fits (Rasch) of all items? |
| ✖ | Is there a description of the item removal process (e.g., using infit/outfit, factor loading minimum value, or cross-loading values)? |
| ✖ | Did they list the final items included in the scale? |
| ✓ | Did they include a factor structure test (e.g., second EFA, CFA, DIF, test for unidimensionality when using Rasch, or similar)? |
| ✖ | Was a measure of reliability (e.g., Cronbach’s alpha, McDonalds Omega_h or Omega_t, Tarkkonen’s Rho) reported? |
| ✓ | Was a test of validity (e.g., predictive, concurrent, convergent, discriminant) reported? |
Comments Evidence for a consistent pattern across multiple entities was considered a test of validity.
PDF of scale as well as instructions for administration and scoring can be found in the supplementary material