This is the most up to date version of this scale.

Construct Summary

The authors aim to determine:

“What do people consider to be the fundamental components of the mind?” (p. 11377)

Rating = 85%

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?
NA	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.

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PAPER
Weisman, K., Dweck, C. S., & Markman, E. M. (2017). Rethinking people’s conceptions of mental life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(43), 11374-11379.

PDF of scale as well as instructions for administration and scoring are not readily available. Check the paper for more details or email hriscaledatabase@gmail.com submit this information if you are the author of this scale.

Final Scale Items (40 total):

Body
getting hungry
experiencing pain
feeling tired
experiencing fear
experiencing pleasure
doing computations
having free will
being conscious
feeling safe
having desires
feeling nauseated
feeling calm
getting angry
having intentions
being self-aware

Heart
feeling embarrassed
experiencing pride
feeling love
experiencing guilt
holding beliefs
feeling disrespected
feeling depressed
understanding how others are feeling
experiencing joy
having a personality
feeling happy
telling right from wrong
exercising self-restraint
having thoughts

Mind
remembering things
recognizing others
sensing temperatures
communicating with others
seeing things
perceiving depth
working toward a goal
detecting sounds
making choices
reasoning about things
detecting odors