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The Influence of Social-Psychological Traits and Job Search Patterns on the Earnings of Workers Affected by a Plant Closure

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1974
Assesses the job search patterns and social-psychological traits of displaced workers in the United States. Implication of plant closures on employees; Factors considered in the dismissal of workers; Programs of the government to help the unemployed; Information on the U.S. labor market. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
Kenneth A. Root, Stephen M. Hills, James L. Stern   +2 more
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Political Tolerance and Coming to Psychological Closure Following the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: An Integrative Approach

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2004
This study tested hypotheses generated from an integrative model of political tolerance that derived hypotheses from a number of different social psychological theories (e.g., appraisal tendency theory, intergroup emotion theory, and value protection models) to explain political tolerance following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A national
Christopher W. Bauman, Elizabeth Mullen, Linda J. Skitka   +2 more
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Psychological predispositions and network structure: The relationship between individual predispositions, structural holes and network closure

Social Networks, 2006
Abstract We examine the effect of individual psychological differences on network structures, proposing several hypotheses about how individual differences might predispose actors to structure their social environment by seeking network closure or by sustaining structural holes.
Kalish, Y, Robins, G
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The interplay of paradigms: Decolonizing a psychology curriculum in the context of the siege of Gaza

Nordic Psychology, 2020
In this article, we reflect on decolonizing models of pedagogy with empirically-supported approaches as an epistemological point of departure. We discuss the risk of reproducing a colonial pedagogical framework in a way that promotes a dominant Western ...
Marwan Diab, G. Veronese, Yasser Abu Jamei, A. Kagee   +3 more
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The life closure scale: Additional psychometric testing of a tool to measure psychological adaptation in death and dying

Research in Nursing & Health, 2004
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to conduct additional psychometric testing on an instrument designed to measure psychological adaptation in end‐of‐life populations across a wide spectrum of terminal illnesses. A sample of 20 participants completed initial testing of the Life Closure Scale (LCS); however, its usefulness was limited by the small ...
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The closed mind: ‘Experience’ and ‘cognition’ aspects of openness to experience and need for closure as psychological bases for right–wing attitudes

European Journal of Personality, 2011
Openness to Experience and Need for Closure (NFC) are dispositional variables related to social–cultural right–wing attitudes. The present study investigated their joint effects. Factor analysis revealed an ‘experiential’ dimension with high loading openness items, and a ‘cognition’ dimension with high loadings for most NFC items and about a quarter ...
Ilse Cornelis, Emma Onraet, Arne Roets, Alain Van Hiel   +3 more
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Psychological theory testing versus psychometric nay-saying: Comment on Neuberg et al.'s (1997) critique of the Need for Closure Scale.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1997
S. L. Neuberg, T. N. Judice, and S. G. West (1997) faulted our work with the Need for Closure Scale (NFCS) on grounds that the NFCS lacks discriminant validity relative to S. L. Neuberg's and J. T. Newsom's (1993) Personal Need for Structure (PNS) Scale and is multidimensional, which, so they claim, renders the use of its total score inadmissible.
KRUGLANSKI A. W, ATASH M. N., DE GRADA, Eraldo, MANNETTI, Lucia, PIERRO, Antonio, WEBSTER D. M.   +5 more
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Teachers and Counselors Talk: The Psychological Impact of COVID‐19 School Closures on Secondary School Students

Journal of School Health
ABSTRACTBackgroundThe COVID‐19 pandemic significantly impacted students' education, mental health, and social well‐being. Our research explores the experiences and perceptions of teachers and counselors of the psychological impact of COVID‐19 school closures on secondary school students after returning to school.MethodsIn this qualitative study, 21 ...
Reza Saadat Mehr, Aram Karimian, Mehrdad Abdullahzadeh, Fereshteh Bakhshian   +3 more
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When and Why Do Liberals and Conservatives Think Alike?: An Investigation into Need for Cognitive Closure, the Binding Moral Foundations, and Political Perception

Social Psychology, 2018
Research on moral foundations theory has found that liberals typically favor the individualizing foundations (i.e., concern for the individual) but typically oppose the binding foundations (i.e., concern for the group). We propose that need for cognitive
Conrad Baldner, Antonio Pierro, Marina Chernikova, A. Kruglanski   +3 more
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Psychological functioning and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in older patients following percutaneous closure of the secundum atrial septal defect (ASD)

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2010
To characterize quality of life and psychological well-being in the new growing population of older patients who underwent trans-catheter closure of the secundum ASD. Twenty-seven patients, aged 60 years and older, who underwent trans-catheter ASD closure and 27 age and gender matched controls answered the hospital anxiety and depression scale and the ...
Avraham Lorber, Avraham Lorber, Mansoor Daniela, Roni Gagin, Miri Cohen, Sergey Yalonetsky   +5 more
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