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Illusory Beliefs Questionnaire Test

Understand how strongly you lean toward superstitions and hidden meanings in everyday events in about 4 minutes. Fast, research-ready insights support counseling, stress work, and critical thinking.

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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How the Scales are Structured

example score

13/25

Cognitive Fusion (CF)

Measures how strongly a person treats their thoughts as if they are facts and behaves in line with them.

Low fusion

Moderate fusion

High fusion

5 – 11: Low fusion | 12 – 18: Moderate fusion | 19 – 25: High fusion

A score of 13 falls in the Moderate fusion range, suggesting a noticeable but not pervasive tendency to take thoughts as reflecting reality.

example score

22/30

Spirituality (S)

Measures the strength of belief in higher powers and the importance of religious or spiritual convictions in one’s worldview.

Low

Moderate

High

6 – 13: Low | 14 – 21: Moderate | 22 – 30: High

A score of 22 falls in the High range, suggesting spirituality is a relatively important part of your worldview.

example score

22/50

Magical Beliefs (MB)

Measures the tendency to endorse supernatural explanations, omens, and magical causality in everyday events.

Low

Moderate

High

10 – 23: Low | 24 – 36: Moderate | 37 – 50: High

A score of 22 falls in the Low range, suggesting relatively infrequent reliance on superstitions or mystical explanations for events.

example score

28/105

Total Score (TS)

Measures the overall intensity of illusory beliefs, including magical thinking, spirituality, and mind-fusion tendencies.

Low

Moderate

High

21 – 49: Low | 50 – 77: Moderate | 78 – 105: High

A score of 28 falls in the Low range, suggesting a generally low tendency to interpret events through supernatural or irrational connections.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Curious self-explorers

41%OF USERS

People who want a quick check of how much they rely on superstitions, omens, or “signs” in everyday decisions.

Therapy and counseling clients

34%OF USERS

People in counseling who are working on anxiety, uncertainty, or stress and want to understand whether magical thinking shapes their coping habits.

Psychology students and researchers

25%OF USERS

Learners and researchers who need a short measure to study irrational beliefs and compare patterns across groups.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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Merging with thoughts (Mwt)

Average

18.5

Normal range

15.4 — 21.7

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Spirituality (S)

Average

16.9

Normal range

12.6 — 21.2

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Magical Beliefs (MB)

Average

23.3

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16.1 — 30.5

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Total score (Ts)

Average

Normal range

31.3 — 62.6

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105

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Agree
- Strongly agree

These are 3 of the 21 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Illusory Beliefs Questionnaire Test - Symptoms and Signs

irrational thinking

cbt

superstition

The measure is designed to assess the extent to which an individual endorses illusory or irrational beliefs, such as perceiving hidden connections or influences where none are evident. The Illusory Beliefs Questionnaire is a brief self-report instrument intended to characterize tendencies toward magical thinking in everyday contexts rather than to diagnose a mental disorder.

It consists of 21 items and typically takes about 4 minutes to complete. Responses can help clinicians and researchers describe individual differences in reliance on superstitious or mystical explanations and consider how these beliefs may relate to coping, reasoning style, or interpretation of chance events. The Illusory Beliefs Questionnaire may be used as a screening or research measure, with results interpreted in conjunction with clinical interview findings and other relevant assessment data.

Author: Aaron T. Beck, David A. Clark

Literature: Garety, P. A., & Freeman, D. The past and future of delusions research: From the inexplicable to the treatable. British Journal of Psychiatry. 2013.; Kingdon, B. L., Egan, S. J., & Rees, C. S. The Illusory Beliefs Inventory: A new measure of magical thinking and its relationship with obsessive compulsive disorder. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. 2012.