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Affect and Cognitive Closure in Students—A Step to Personalised Education of Clinical Assessment in Psychology with the Use of Simulated and Virtual Patients [PDF]

Healthcare, 2022
Introduction: Since there was no general model of competencies to determine a successful clinical assessment, we based our study on the many skills that are needed to perform one. We analysed students’ learning performance based on inner determinants, such as affect and cognitive closure, with the use of two teaching methods (i.e., simulated patient ...
Maciej Walkiewicz, Bartosz Zalewski, Mateusz Guziak   +2 more
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Finding Closure: A Closer Look at the Gestalt Law of Closure in Convolutional Neural Networks [PDF]

arXiv
The human brain has an inherent ability to fill in gaps to perceive figures as complete wholes, even when parts are missing or fragmented. This phenomenon is known as Closure in psychology, one of the Gestalt laws of perceptual organization, explaining how the human brain interprets visual stimuli.
Yuyan Zhang, Derya Soydaner, Lisa Koßmann, Fatemeh Behrad, Johan Wagemans   +4 more
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An Analysis of ‘Closure’ and ‘Equilibrium’ in Mathew Quick’s The Silver Linings Playbook in the Light of Gestalt Psychology

Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2016
The present paper moves in the line of cognitive literary studies. Its project is to interpret Mathew Quick’s The Silver Linings Playbook in the light of the theories of Gestalt psychology. Quick portrays a pair of mentally unbalanced protagonists suffering from the loss of their partners.
Ali Taghizadeh, Moein Moradi
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Need for cognitive closure and desire for cultural tightness mediate the effect of concern about ecological threats on the need for strong leadership

Current Psychology, 2023
The present research utilizes an evolutionary framework to investigate the process underlying the recent rise of several populist, “strongmen” leaders. Specifically, we propose that when people experience contingent (i.e., impending) ecological threats ...
Federico Contu, Molly Ellenberg, A. Kruglanski, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Antonio Pierro   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Differences in Psychological and Behavioral Changes between Children following School Closure due to COVID-19 [PDF]

Psychiatry Journal, 2021
School closure due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pushed children across ages and nationalities into a state of mental health crisis. In Japan, children between the ages of 6 and 18 were ordered to stay at home and observe social distancing for several months.
Kiwamu Nakachi, Kentaro Kawabe, Rie Hosokawa, Ayumi Yoshino, Fumie Horiuchi, Shu-ichi Ueno   +5 more
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General figure and face-specific closure ability: predictors of trait-autism?

Current Psychology, 2023
Little research has examined the association between general figure closure speed, a stratum I ability within the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) model of intelligence, and face-specific closure ability; an important consideration, as some research suggests ...
Dana L. Walker, Romina Palermo, Gilles E. Gignac   +2 more
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Need for cognitive closure and trust towards government predicting pandemic behavior and mental health: comparing United States and China

Current Psychology, 2022
Residents of the United States and China have responded very differently to the implementation of COVID-19 preventive measures. This study introduces the uncertainty reduction theory and the need for cognitive closure (NFC) framework into the context of ...
Cixin Wang, Ningyu Tang, Danlei Zhen, X. Wang, Jingshu Zhang, Yeram Cheong, Qianyu Zhu   +6 more
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Stress of university students before and after campus closure in response to COVID‐19

Journal of Community Psychology, 2021
Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, universities were forced to adopt a remote learning model, which introduced a number of stressors into college students' everyday life and study habits.
Luise von Keyserlingk, Katsumi Yamaguchi-Pedroza, Richard Arum, J. Eccles   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Influence of anxiety on university students’ academic involution behavior during COVID-19 pandemic: Mediating effect of cognitive closure needs

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant negative effect on university students’ mental health worldwide. The pandemic has resulted in individuals experiencing increased levels of anxiety and stress as well as intensified concerns about the future due
Dongdong Yan, Huanzhe Zhang, Shili Guo, Wen Zeng   +3 more
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Too Great to be Guilty? Individuals High in Collective Narcissism Demand Closure Regarding the Past to Attenuate Collective Guilt

European Journal of Social Psychology, 2022
While the Holocaust is widely regarded by Germans as one of the worst human atrocities,they differ in their readiness to express guilt or, in contrast, in their demand to close thischapter of history.
Fiona Kazarovytska, R. Imhoff
semanticscholar   +1 more source