psychotools_conspiracist

36,629 responses from 2,449 respondents to 15 items.

About this table

DescriptionMeasure of belief in conspiracy theories
ReferenceBrotherton R, French CC, Pickering AD (2013). Measuring Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 279.
DOI10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00279
LicenceGPL-3.0
Source datahttps://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/psychotools/index.html

Size and shape

Responses36,629
Respondents2,449
Items15
Response categories5
Responses per respondent14.957
Responses per item2441.933
Density0.997
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeAdult (18+)
sampleEducational, Internet-based, Targeted/specific
construct typeOpinion/attitude
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)eng
construct nameGeneric Conspiracist Beliefs (GCB) scale

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentMeasure of belief in conspiracy theories
Mean words per item15.533
Mean characters per item98.467
Mean characters per response17.200
Flesch-Kincaid grade level11.025

Columns

iditemresp

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python:

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("psychotools_conspiracist")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("psychotools_conspiracist")

Version and provenance

IRW versionv393
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse v53.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/4g08-xt41
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv53.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v23.0