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Construct Summary

The authors define the dimensions of mind perception as Experience and Agency. The factor Experience includes 11 capacities: hunger, fear, pain, pleasure, rage, desire, personality, consciousness, pride, embarrassment, and joy. The second factor, Agency, includes seven capacities: self-control, morality, memory, emotion recognition, planning, communication, and thought.

Rating = 69%

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 The scale uses a nonstandard methodology of comparison for administration of the items therefore there was no formal validation of the individual items. Factor loadings in supplementary material. PCA does not require item removal. Validation method was convergent but scale was not compared to a previously validated measure.

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PAPER
Gray, H. M., Gray, K., & Wegner, D. M. (2007). Dimensions of mind perception. science, 315(5812), 619-619.

Administration instructions and scoring information

Final Scale Items (18 total):

From the supplementary material: “Respondents saw photos and vignettes on the characters in random order, and selected a survey from a set of descriptions of 18 mental capacities or 6 personal judgments. For the survey, images and descriptions of the two characters to be compared appeared with a five-point scale anchored by “Much more this one” below each image, “Slightly more this one” next, and “Both equally” between the images.”

Experience
hunger
fear
pain
pleasure
rage
desire
personality
consciousness
pride
embarrassment
joy

Agency
self-control
morality
memory
emotion regulation
planning
communication
thought