RISC Questionnaire

The Rust Inventory of Schizotypal Cognitions

The RISDC is a brief questionnaire designed to explore unusual patterns of perception, belief, and imaginative thinking. It is not a diagnostic tool, but a way to understand how thoughts sometimes take unexpected turns or feel unusually vivid.

This online version lets you complete the questionnaire yourself to see how the scoring works and what your personal profile looks like. Your responses are processed instantly within your browser, and no data is saved or transmitted. People vary widely in how they experience imaginary cues, coincidences, intuition, or unusual ideas, and most of these differences are entirely harmless. The results simply help you reflect on where your thinking sits within this natural spectrum.

Rust Inventory of Schizotypal Cognitions (RISC)

How to respond

Read each of these statements carefully and choose one of the four responses:

SD = Strongly Disagree D = Disagree A = Agree SA = Strongly Agree

There are no “right” or “wrong” answers. Decide which response is most accurate for you. Choose the answer that describes how you actually think, rather than how you feel you ought to think. Please respond to all statements.

Please select one response for each statement.

Item	SD Strongly Disagree	D Disagree	A Agree	SA Strongly Agree
1. Sometimes I feel I am ugly, and at other times that I am attractive.
2. I have never embarrassed myself by expressing unreasonable jealousy.
3. I consider no person or country to be my enemy.
4. I sometimes tell people too much about myself and almost immediately regret it.
5. I have never seen anything that looked like a ghost.
6. Sometimes my thoughts seem so loud I can almost hear them.
7. I am almost always consistent in what I say and believe.
8. Most people are too stupid to realize which things in life are important.
9. In pitch dark I never see any visual images.
10. I have never “come out in a cold sweat” upon realizing what I have told someone about myself.
11. There are some people whom I trust completely.
12. I have, on occasions, tried to reach the very essence of an object with my mind.
13. When I try to help people they often misunderstand my motives.
14. I have occasionally had to put my sudden sniffing of a smell down to imagination.
15. I never use a lucky charm.
16. Secret organizations have no real power or influence on our lives.
17. I am sometimes unsure whether I have said something aloud or not.
18. Sometimes I suspect that the real world is nothing like what it seems.
19. I would not be in the least concerned if a person who believed in magic tried to put a spell on me.
20. It has never occurred to me that the world may be a figment of my imagination.
21. I am not a superstitious person.
22. I don’t really understand why I say some of the things I do.
23. Sometimes I get a weird feeling that I am not really here.
24. I have never suspected that people I am fond of may be secretly working against me.
25. Sometimes people or objects seem to me to glow with an inner light.
26. Things sometimes go so well for me that I suspect I may be receiving help from an outside agency.