Assessment Instruments and Measures

Wisdom Measures | Big Data Misc | Measures of Social Orientation | Measures of Cognitive Style | Additional Databases


Wisdom Measures

Situated Wise Reasoning Scale (SWIS)

The world's first psychometrically robust and cross-validated situation-sensitive measure of wise reasoning can be found on PsyArXiv [link]

English version [pdf]

Chinese version [docx]  [pdf]

German version [pdf]

Citation: Brienza, J. P., Kung, F., Santos, H. C., Bobocel, D. R, & Grossmann, I. (2018). Wisdom, bias, and balance: Toward a process-sensitive measurement of wisdom-related cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000171

Full documentation, including data and analyses, are available at Open Science Framework [link]

For further inquiries, please contact: igrossma@uwaterloo.ca

Narrative techniques

Manual for content-analysis of wise reasoning, as used in Grossmann et al., PNAS, 2010; Grossmann et al., JEP: General, 2013; Grossmann et al., Psychological Science, 2012.

Wise reasoning manual 2010-2013[pdf]


Big Data Misc 

Rudimentary Intro to Big Data (Google Ngrams and Google Trends) in R

Video tutorial [link]

R-code [R code in zip archive; please extract first]

NgramR archive of the ngramr package; download and "install_local" in R

Common time-series analyses of cultural change

R-code [click here]  


Cross-Cultural Measures: Measures of Social Orientation

Contextual conception of the self

Original measure in: Kuhn and McPartland (1954)

       Link: English Version (PDF)


Self-inflation

Sociogram Task

Original measure in: Kitayama, Park, Sevincer, Karasawa, & Uskul (2009)

       Link: English Version (PDF)


Self-construal

Singelis' Self-construal Scale

Original measure in: Singelis (1994)

       The latest version of the SCS can be obtained from Ted Singelis

Updated by: I. Grossmann and J. Na in 2008 to remove aging-sensitive items for Na, Grossmann, Varnum, Kitayama, Gonzalez, & Nisbett, 2010

       Link: English Version (PDF)

Russian translation by: I. Grossmann (2007; includes aging-sensitive items)

       Link: Russian Version (PDF)


Inclusion of others in the self

The Inclusion of Others in the Self Scale (IOS Scale)

Original measure in: Aron, Aron, & Smollan (1992)

       Link: English Version (PDF)


Intensity of engaged vs. disengaged emotion

Implicit Social Orientation Questionnaire (ISOQ)

Original measure in: Kitayama, Mesquita, & Karasawa (2006)

       Link: English Version (PDF)


Engaged vs. disengaged emotions as predictors of happiness

Implicit Social Orientation Questionnaire (ISOQ)

Original measure in: Kitayama, Mesquita, & Karasawa (2006)

       Link: English Version (PDF)


Friend vs. stranger - loyalty vs. nepotism

Original measure in: Talhelm, Zhang, Oishi, Shimin, Duan, Lan, & Kitayama (2014)

       Link: English Version (PDF)


Cross Cultural Measures: Cognitive Style

Framed line test

Framed Line Test

Original measure in: Kitayama, Duffy, Kawamura, & Larson (2003)

Updated version in: Kitayama, Park, Sevincer, Karasawa, & Uskul (2009)

       Link: English Version, Absolute First (PDF)

              English Version, Relative First (PDF)

              German Version, Absolute First (PDF)

              German Version, Relative First (PDF)


Change blindness

Change Blindness Task

Original measure in: Masuda & Nisbett (2006)

Updated measure below in: Grossmann & Varnum, 2011

       Link: English Version 1 of 2 (ZIP)        English Version 2 of 2 (ZIP)


Object in context

Original measure in: Masuda & Nisbett, 2001

       Link: Japanese Version (ZIP)

English version updated by T. Masuda in 2008

       Link: English Version (ZIP)


Inclusion of contextual information

Original measure in: Choi, Dalal, Kim-Prieto, & Park (2003)

       Link: English Version (PDF)


Third- vs. First-person autobiographical memory

Original measure in: Cohen & Gunz (2002) (holistic first- always)

       Link: English Version (PDF)


Situational vs. dispositional attribution

Original measure in: Kitayama, Ishii, Imada, Takemura, & Ramaswamy (2006)

       Link: English Version (PDF)

Updated by I. Grossmann and M. E.W. Varnum for Na, Grossmann, Varnum, Kitayama, Gonzalez, & Nisbett (2010)

       Link: English Version (PDF)


Non-linear vs. linear prediction of change

Original measure in: Ji, Nisbett, & Su (Study 2; 2001)

Materials adapted by: I. Grossmann for Grossmann & Varnum (2011), and Na, Grossmann, Varnum, Kitayama, Gonzalez, & Nisbett (2010)

       Link: English

Measure Description


Relational vs. taxonomic classification

Original measure in: Uskul, Kitayama, & Nisbett (2008)

Updated by I. Grossmann and J. Na for Na, Grossmann, Varnum, Kitayama, Gonzalez, & Nisbett (2010)

       Link: English Version (PDF)

Intuitive vs. Formal Categorization

Original measure in: Norenzayan, Smith, Kim, & Nisbett (2002)

Link: English Version (ZIP)


Additional Databases

Dr. Daphna Oyserman, University of Southern California

  • A list of measures used in Culture and the Self research, including reliability and relevant citations. Measures include priming tasks, as well as measures of individualism and collectivism.
  • Link to website (click here)


Dr. Vivian Vignoles, University of Sussex

  • A complete set of measures from the project 'Motivated Identity Construction in Cultural Context.' English measures are available to download, non-English measures may be acquired through e-mail request to Dr. Vignoles or Dr. Becker.
  • Link to website (click here)