Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire.
CMQ
- What it measures
- Conspiracy mentality - the content-free generalised political attitude that powerful groups act in secret against the common interest
- Length and format
- 5 items. 11-pt percentage-likelihood scale (0 to 100 percent certainly not to certainly) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 25+ langs approx incl. DE, TR, FR, ES, IT, PL, PT, EL, RU, ZH, HU, RO, RS/HR
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Bruder M, Haffke P, Neave N, Nouripanah N, Imhoff R. Measuring individual differences in generic beliefs in conspiracy theories across cultures: Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire. Front Psychol. 2013;4:225.
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