Rethinking People's Conception of Mental Life
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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.
Construct Summary
The authors aim to determine:
“What do people consider to be the fundamental components of the mind?” (p. 11377)
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
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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