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This article presents a scale that measures chronic individual
differences in people's uncertainty about their ability to understand
and detect cause-and-effect relationships in the social world:
the Causal Uncertainty Scale (CUS). The results of Study 1 indicated
that the scale has good internal and adequate test-retest reliability.
Additionally, the results of a factor analysis suggested that
the scale appears to be tapping a single construct. Study 2 examined
the convergent and discriminant validity of the scale, and Studies
3 and 4 examined the predictive and incremental validity of the
scale. The importance of the CUS to work on depressives' social
information processing and for basic research and theory on human
social judgment processes is discussed.
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