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Brotherton, R., French, C. C., & Pickering, A. D. (2013). Measuring belief in conspiracy theories: The generic conspiracist beliefs scale. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 279. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00279

= L'échelle = 
C'est une échelle à 5 facteurs : 
# GM : ''Government malfeasance''
## The government is involved in the murder of innocent citizens and/or well-known public figures, and keeps this a secret
## The government permits or perpetrates acts of terrorism on its own soil, disguising its involvement
## The government uses people as patsies to hide its involvement in criminal activity
# ET: ''extraterrestrial cover-up''
## Secret organizations communicate with extraterrestrials, but keep this fact from the public
## Evidence of alien contact is being concealed from the public 
## Some UFO sightings and rumors are planned or staged in order to distract the public from real alien contact
# MG: ''malevolent global conspiracies''
## The power held by heads of state is second to that of small unknown groups who really control world politics
## A small, secret group of people is responsible for making all major world decisions, such as going to war 
## Certain significant events have been the result of the activity of a small group who secretly manipulate world events
# PW: ''personal wellbeing''
## The spread of certain viruses and/or diseases is the result of the deliberate, concealed efforts of some organization ## Technology with mind-control capacities is used on people without their knowledge 0.69
## Experiments involving new drugs or technologies are routinely carried out on the public without their knowledge or consent
# CI: ''control of information''
## Groups of scientists manipulate, fabricate, or suppress evidence in order to deceive the public
## New and advanced technology which would harm current industry is being suppressed 
## A lot of important information is deliberately concealed from the public out of self-interest

= Méthodes de validation = 
L'échelle a été validée avec 3 études : 
* une première étude a été envoyée ; elle comportait 75 items. Elle leur a permis de trouver les 5 facteurs 
* une deuxième étude a utilisé 3 items représentatifs de chaque facteur pour former l'échelle. Ils ont regardé sa validité interne, test-retest, et sa corrélation avec d'autres mesures de croyances aux théories du complot (''Belief in conspiracy theories inventory'', ''Belief in 9/11 conspiracy theories'', ''Belief in 7/7 conspiracy theories'', et ''Belief in fictitious Red Bull conspiracy theories'')
* la troisième étude a repris l'échelle à 15 items, et a évalué les corrélations avec d'autres mesures supplémentaires (''Belief in conspiracy theories inventory'', ''Interpersonal trust'', ''Anomie'', ''Australian sheep-goat scale'' (échelle de croyance au paranormal), ''Peters delusions inventory'')
* la quatrième étude évaluait la corrélation entre le GCB et d'autres mesures (le ''IPIP Big Five'', une ''Sensation seeking scale'', une échelle d'intelligence émotionnelle)


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