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  Assessment name:   Belief in Pure Good Scale (BPG) Scale overview: The Belief in Pure Good scale is a 28-item self-report rating scale indicating perceptions of good based on the theorizing of Baumeister (1999). Authors: Webster, Russell J., & Saucier, Donald A Response Type: Participants rate the items on a 7-point scale of agreement from 1 (disagree very strongly) to 7 (agree very strongly). Scale items There are 28 items on the scale. Each item is associated with a component of pure good . Following is a list of the components of pure good assessed by the scale.   General   Intentional Help   Facilitates Peace   Impartial Help   Without Reward   Rare in World   Avoids Aggression     Defies Corruption Psychometric properties The authors provided descriptive statistics and evidence for internal consistency along with early evidence for validity based on correlations with measures of related variables. Availability: The full set of items is ava

  Assessment name:   Belief in Pure Evil Scale (BPE) Scale overview: The Belief in Pure Evil scale is a 22-item self-report rating scale indicating perceptions of evil based on the theorizing of Baumeister (1999). Authors: Webster, Russell J. & Saucier, Donald A Response Type: Participants rate the items on a 7-point scale of agreement from 1 (disagree very strongly) to 7 (agree very strongly). Scale items : There are 22 items on the scale. Each item is associated with a component of pure evil . Following is a list of the components of pure evil assessed by the scale.   General   Intentional Harm   Joy of Harm   Understanding evil   Low self-control   Egotism   Eternal/Disposition   Antithesis of Peace Psychometric properties The authors provided descriptive statistics and evidence for internal consistency along with early evidence for validity based on correlations with measures of related variables. Availability: The full set of item

  Cards and God/ 2023 by Geoffrey W Sutton & Bing AI Assessment name:   Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale (MFSS) Scale overview: The Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale is a 24-item measurement of the sacredness of moral values. Each item is rated on an 8-point scale of value. Authors: Jesse Graham and Jonathan Haidt Response Type: An 8-point value rating scale First, participants receive instructions: Try to imagine actually doing the following things, and indicate how much money someone would have to pay you (anonymously and secretly) to be willing to do each thing. For each action, assume that nothing bad would happen to you afterward. Also assume that you cannot use the money to make up for your action. Then, they read brief scenarios and provide a response by rating the scenarios on an 8-point scale of dollar values: ranging from 1 = $0 (I’d do it for free); 2 = $10; 3 = $100; 4 = $1,000; 5 = $10,000; 6 = $100,000; 7 = $1 million; to 8 = never, for any amount of

  Assessment name:   Redemptive Violence and Belief in Evil Measure Scale overview:  The Redemptive Violence and Belief in Evil Measure consists of 14-items divided into two scales measuring the degree of agreement with the redemptive value of violence and beliefs about good and evil. Authors: Maggie Campbell, Johanna Ray Vollhardt Response Type: Each item is rated on a 7-point scale of agreement from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (7). Scale items: There are 14 items divided into two scales: Redemptive Violence and Belief in Evil. The Redemptive Violence items include statements about the moral justification of force and violence. The Belief in Evil scale includes statements about people who may be considered good or evil.   Psychometric properties Cronbach alpha values:   RV = .90, BE = .82 The two factors presented as two scales were supported by factor analyses—see Table 1. Both RV and BE were positively correlated with beliefs about the death pen

  Assessment name:   Problematic Pornography Use Scale (PPUS) Scale overview: The Problematic Pornography Use Scale (PPUS) is a 12-item self-report instrument focused on problems linked to viewing pornography (Kor et al., 2014a; 2014b). Authors: Ariel Kors and others Response Type: Items are rated on a six-point scale of truth values (0 = Never True, 1 = Rarely True, 2 = Sometimes True, 3 = Often True, 4 = Very Often True, 5 = Almost Always True). Scale items The researchers identified four factors: Excessive Use, Use to Escape/Avoid Negative Emotions, Self-control Difficulties, Distress and Functional Problems. Each factor is measured with three items. Psychometric properties Internal consistency values were good to high and there is evidence supporting construct and convergent validity. Availability: See Kor et al. 2014a for the list of items linked to each factor. Read a definition of pornography Reference for the scale Kor, A., Zilcha-Mano, S., Fogel, Y. A.,