Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale.
GCB
- What it measures
- Generic conspiracist ideation across five facets - government malfeasance, malevolent global conspiracies, extraterrestrial cover-up, personal wellbeing threats, control of information
- Length and format
- 15 (GCB-5 short form 5). 5-pt Likert (definitely not true to definitely true) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 25+ langs approx incl. DE, FR, ES, IT, PL, PT, TR, ZH, RU, EL, RO, HU, 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
- Brotherton R, French CC, Pickering AD. Measuring belief in conspiracy theories: the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale. Front Psychol. 2013;4:279.
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