Bullshitting Frequency Scale (BFS)
Psychology1 sample item
About this scale
bullshit is the poop of bulls and cows. It has another more commonly used meaning: It is used for exaggerations. In the psychological research of deception, it is about embellishing and stretching the truth to make a better impression. A bullshitter is a person who tells bullshit . Littrell and colleagues (2020) developed a Bullshitting Frequency Scale to find out how often a person tells bullshit
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Notes
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Source & citation
Littrell, S., Risko, E.F. and Fugelsang, J.A. (2021), The Bullshitting Frequency Scale: Development and psychometric properties. Br. J. Soc. Psychol., 60: 248-270 e12379. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12379 | The full scale and data can be downloaded from the papers' OSF page .
data are openly accessible here
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12379
downloaded from the papers' OSF page
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