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Construct Summary

What are the dimensions of mind? Our results suggest that people’s ascriptions of mental capacities follow at least three major axes. Dimension A [positive and negative affect] unites aspects of physiological and positive as well as negative emotional capacities that are largely unintentional. Dimension 2 encompasses aspects of both moral cognition and social cognition, which itself includes the simulation of one’s own mind (e.g., planning) and others’ minds (e.g., inferring their thoughts); its appropriate label may thus be Moral & Social Cognition. Dimension R [reality interaction] illustrates the dynamic transition from perception and cognition through learning to communication and action—a second more specific meaning of agency. (p. 6)

Rating = 85%

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✓	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?

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PAPER
Malle, B. F. (2019, July). How many dimensions of mind perception really are there?. In CogSci (pp. 2268-2274).

Administration instructions and scoring information located in the supplementary material

Final Scale Items (20 total):

Positive Affect
feeling happy
loving specific people
feeling pleasure
experiencing gratitude

Negative Affect
feeling pain
feeling stress
experiencing fear
feeling tired

Moral Cognition
disapproving of immoral actions
telling right from wrong
upholding moral values
praising moral actions

Social Cognition
inferring a person’s thinking
planning for the future
understanding others’ minds
setting goals

Reality Interaction
communicating verbally
seeing and hearing the world
learning from instruction
moving on their own