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Need for Closure Bias

2021
As clinicians it is natural that we want to provide optimal patient care and outcomes. But to do this we not only require an inherent knowledge of disease processes and sequelae, we also need to be able to make rapid decisions around causes and the potential risks and benefits of the treatment options, sometimes with little information available.
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Need for Closure and Youths' Leisure Time Preferences

Psychological Reports, 2006
The Need for Closure is an individual characteristic which may help explain individual differences in engagement in leisure activities. Both a leisure engagement inventory and a validated Dutch version of the Need for Closure Scale were administered to a convenient sample of 1,035 young adults ages 15 to 24 years of whom 552 were female.
Iris, Vermeir, Maggie, Geuens
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Autocracy Bias in Informal Groups Under Need for Closure

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2003
Two experiments investigated the tendency of groups with members under high (vs. low) need for cognitive closure to develop an autocratic leadership structure in which some members dominate the discussion, constitute the “hubs” of communication, and influence the group more than other members. The first experiment found that high (vs.
PIERRO, Antonio, MANNETTI, Lucia, DE GRADA, Eraldo, LIVI, Stefano, A. W. Kruglanski   +4 more
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Need for cognitive closure and coping strategies

International Journal of Psychology, 2002
This study investigated the hypothesis that the process of coping may be motivated by an interaction of directional motivational factors represented by job satisfaction/dissatisfaction and by non‐directional or epistemological motivational factors represented by the level of Need for Cognitive Closure. Need for Cognitive Closure is based on two general
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Measuring need for closure in classroom learners

Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
Abstract Need for closure, as formulated by Kruglanski and colleagues [Kruglanski, A. W. (1990). Lay epistemic theory in social-cognitive psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 1(3), 181–197; Kruglanski, A. W., & Webster, D. M. (1996). Motivated closing of the mind: Seizing and freezing. Psychological Review, 103, 263–283; Webster, D. M., & Kruglanski, A.
Teresa K. DeBacker, H. Michael Crowson
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Need for closure and reactions to innovation

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2017
AbstractIn two studies using Italian (N = 852) and American (N = 94) samples, we hypothesized that high NFC individuals would have lower intentions to use new technological developments, and that this relationship would be mediated by anxiety about the new technology. We found support for this hypothesis in Study 1, but not Study 2. In the second study,
Chernikova, Marina, Kruglanski, Arie, Giovannini, Dino, Vezzali, Loris, Su, Junjie   +4 more
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Individual differences in need for cognitive closure.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1994
This article introduces an individual-difference measure of the need for cognitive closure. As a dispositional construct, the need for cognitive closure is presently treated as a latent variable manifested through several different aspects, namely, desire for predictability, preference for order and structure, discomfort with ambiguity, decisiveness ...
D M, Webster, A W, Kruglanski
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Persistent gastrocutaneous fistula: Factors affecting the need for closure

Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2013
The occurrence of gastrocutaneous fistula (GCF) is a well-known complication after gastrostomy tube placement. We explore multiple factors to ascertain their impact on the rate of persistent GCF formation.We retrospectively reviewed patient records for all gastrostomies (GT) constructed at our institution from 2007 to 2011.
Deidre L, Wyrick, Andrew P, Bozeman, Samuel D, Smith, Richard J, Jackson, R Todd, Maxson, Karen R, Kelley, Donna L, Mathews, Jingyun, Li, Christopher J, Swearingen, Melvin S, Dassinger   +9 more
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Need for Closure and the Social Response to Terrorism

Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2010
It has been long contended that terrorism is a form of psychological warfare with the aim of advancing political objectives through the spreading of fear. The present set of five studies explored the relation between need for closure and the social response to terrorism.
Orehek, E., Fishman, S., Dechesne, M., Doosje, B., Kruglanski, A.W., Cole, A.P., Saddler, B., Jackson, T.   +7 more
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Dispositional Need for Cognitive Closure and Self-Enhancing Beliefs

The Journal of Social Psychology, 2000
In 3 studies, the author examined self-enhancing beliefs as a function of dispositional need for cognitive closure. The results of the 1st study revealed that fathers in the Netherlands believed that they devoted more time to their children than did average Dutch fathers; these beliefs were strongest for participants with a high need for closure ...
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