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How much a person experiences positive feelings due to an unexpected event involving products received from a company is measured with four, seven-point items.
The degree to which a person experiences positive feelings resulting from an unexpected viewing of a movie trailer is measured with four, seven-point items.
Using three, seven-point Likert items, the scale measures the extent to which a person experiences positive feelings due to unexpectedly seeing a particular painting.
Composed of four, seven-point Likert items, the scale measures how much a person experiences positive feelings due to hearing a particular song unexpectedly.
Five, seven-point Likert-type items are used to measure a person’s belief that he/she is experiencing good luck during the current day.
A person’s belief that he/she is lucky and frequently experiences it is measured with five, seven-point Likert-type items.
Four statements are used to measure the attitude one holds about luck such that it plays an important role in life and favors some people while not others.
The extent to which a person is superstitious is measured based his/her belief in three phenomena that, if genuine, would violate basic limiting principles of science.
The degree to which a person believes that fate determines outcomes in life (external locus of control) verses self (internal locus of control) is measured in this scale using six, seven-point items.
The degree to which a person views fate as a powerful force that influences events and outcomes is measured in this scale using six, ten-point Likert-type items. Fate has a sense of predestination while luck is more transient. Despite the distinction, the scale seems to capture aspects of both.
