27  Promiscuous Teleology

Author

Connair J. S. Russell

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Cluster: Cognitive Biases

27.1 Measure

The promiscuous teleology measure we use is the short form of the Teleological Ideas about Nature Scale (TINS), which is an as yet unpublished scale by Kelemen, Brown, Burnham & Rottman (2023, in prep).

PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WHEN THE SCALE IS PUBLISHED

Modifications

27.2 Implementation

Question wording

Participants read the following text:

Please read each of the following statements carefully and state to what extent you agree. There are no right or wrong answers and your responses remain anonymous.

Items

Coding

This questionnaire used the standard response scale for agreement

No items are reverse coded

Scoring

The following variables are derived from this measure:

Variable Name Variable Label Description Variable Type Source (Section) Definition
Promiscuous Teleology promisc_teleology Promiscuous Teleology Score numeric Promiscuous Teleology mean tel_01: tel_14

27.3 Script