The Magical Ideation Scale

The Magical Ideation Scale (MIS) was introduced by Eckblad and Chapman (1983) and contains 30 items that are scored based on a true/false response format (national adaptation by Rózsa et al., 2020). The MIS is a unidimensional scale for measuring the rate of unrealistic invalid causations and false beliefs, as well as assessing schizotypal traits and proneness to psychosis (a few sample items: “If reincarnation were true it would explain some unusual experiences I have had” and “I have worried that people on other planets may be influencing what happens on Earth”). A higher MIS score is closely associated with perceptual aberration, physical anhedonia, and psychoticism. In both teenagers and adults, a higher MIS score is indicative of more pronounced magical thinking. In our study, the internal consistency was good (Cronbach's α = 0.77).