"Getting duped" or "getting suckered" means that you feel you were taken advantage of or misled as a consumer. For each of the statements below, please indicate to what extent the statement is characteristic of you. If you do not feel that you have ever been duped or suckered, please answer, to the best of your ability, about how you think you would react if you felt that you had been duped. Please use the following scale. 1 = extremely uncharacteristic of me (not at all like me) 2 = somewhat uncharacteristic 3 = uncertain 4= somewhat characteristic 5= extremely characteristic of me (very much like me)