This manuscript reports the development of SHAPE scale. Comprising 13 items, the final scale measures
social attitudes toward augmented humans. In the development, we identify two factors that determine attitudes
towards augmented humans; Social Threat, attitudes about augmented humans causing harm to individuals and
society, and Agency, an attitude describing whether augmented humans have agency over their own actions. We
show that the SHAPE scale is reliable by showing it is stable over a time of about 2.5 weeks and that it converges
with technology centric-measures, technology readiness index, and stereotype-centric measures, stereotype
content model (SCM) and can predict whether people want to adopt human augmentation technology themselves.
We, thus, provide researchers and practitioners in the domain of human augmentation with a psychometrically
validated and brief measure that can quantify attitudes toward augmented humans.
Society’sAttitudesTowardsHumanAugmentation