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The Stoic Psychological Physicalism: An Ancient Version of the Causal Closure Thesis

CR: The New Centennial Review, 2010
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Seven Closure and Anti-Closure: Philosophical, Psychological, Experiential, and Psycho-Linguistic Components

2012
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THE NEED FOR COGNITIVE CLOSURE AND UNCERTAINTY-IDENTITY THEORY: PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS FOR EVALUATING EXTREMISM

This thesis investigates how psychological responses to uncertainty contribute to ideological extremism in the U.S. It draws on a pair of theories from social psychology. The first is Need for Cognitive Closure (NFCC), which refers to a desire for definitive answers and an intolerance for ambiguity; the second is Uncertainty-Identity Theory (UIT ...
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The psychology of closure – and why some need it more than others

2018
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Intentionality, Perception, and Autocatalytic Closure: A Potential Means of Repaying Psychology’s Conceptual Debt

1998
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