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With four, seven-point Likert-type items, this scale measures a person’s belief that a particular brand has the ability to exert influence on society.
How much a person attends to one’s self at the moment rather than caring about others is measured with four, seven-point Likert items.
The extent to which a person believes that a hierarchy of power is necessary among people in society to maintain order is measured with three, seven-point Likert-type items.
Six, nine-point semantic differentials measure whether a person believes the people in a particular group are focused on helping and caring for others in the group or, at the other extreme, are concerned about helping themselves.
With four, seven-point Likert-type items, the scale measures how much of one’s resources, not including money, would be necessary in order to join a particular group.
Composed of four, seven-point Likert-type items, this scale measures a person’s expected embarrassment if a particular group is joined and members become aware of his/her attribute that is stigmatized.
Because of a personal attribute one has, this three-item, seven-point Likert-type scale measures a person’s expectation that it could be beneficial to share insights with others in a particular context. The scale may be most relevant if the characteristic is something that is stigmatized, e.g., weight, addiction, criminal activity.
Composed of five, seven-point items, the scale measures how much a person believes that a choice he/she could potentially make violates social norms and will, in particular, offend a friend. The focal choice is not stated in the items themselves.
The belief that people are not born equal and that there should be a social hierarchy is measured with six, seven-point Likert-type items.
This five-item, seven-point Likert-type attitude scale measures the importance a person generally places on being able to express who he/she is and that it is one of his/her highest values.
