Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire (CMQ)¶
Short Description: The five-item Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire (CMQ) is designed to efficiently assess the general propensity to believe in conspiracy theories. The CMQ examines meaningful associations with personality measures, generalized political attitudes (e.g. right-wing authoritarianism), individual differences (e.g. perceived socio-political control), and measurement equivalence across three language versions has already been established.
Methodological Details: Five self-report items. Examples include “Some secret organizations exert a major influence on political decisions.” and “Politicians usually don’t give any information about the true motives of their decisions.”
Available Papers
Imhoff, Roland, Felix Zimmer, Olivier Klein, João H. C. António, Maria Babinska, Adrian Bangerter, Michal Bilewicz, Nebojša Blanuša, Kosta Bovan, Rumena Bužarovska, Aleksandra Cichocka, Sylvain Delouvée, Karen M. Douglas, Asbjørn Dyrendal, Tom Etienne, Biljana Gjoneska, Sylvie Graf, Estrella Gualda, Gilad Hirschberger, Anna Kende, Yordan Kutiyski, Peter Krekó, Andre Krouwel, Silvia Mari, Jasna Milošević Đorđević, Maria Serena Panasiti, Myrto Pantazi, Ljupcho Petkovski, Giuseppina Porciello, André Rabelo, Raluca Nicoleta Radu, Florin A. Sava, Michael Schepisi, Robbie M. Sutton, Viren Swami, Hulda Thórisdóttir, Vladimir Turjačanin, Pascal Wagner-Egger, Iris Žeželj & Jan-Willem van Prooijen. 2022. Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries. Nature Human Behaviour 6 (3), 392-403. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01258-7)
Find the proposal for the module here
Contact |
Syear |
Respondents |
Dataset |
Variables |
Availability |
Field |
Method |
Replication |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peter Haffke (University of Konstanz) |
2013 |
1920 |
inno |
04/2016 |
Psychology |
Survey items |