Social Information Processing - Attribution and Emotional Response Questionnaire (SIP-AEQ)

The questionnaire consists of vignettes about hostile attribution, instrumental attribution, and benign attribution to provocation. Each vignette is then followed by four Likert-scaled questions that assess direct hostile intent (e.g., “This person wanted to physically hurt me”), indirect hostile intent (e.g., “This person wanted to make me look bad”), instrumental non-hostile intent (e.g., “This person wanted to win the match”), and neutral or benign intent (e.g., “This person did this by accident”).

The four attribution items are then followed by two items designed to reflect negative emotional response (NER; i.e., “How likely is it that you would be angry if this happened to you?” and “How likely is it that you would be upset with yourself if this happened to you?”).