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Interaction of guidance types and the Need for Cognitive Closure in wiki-based learning [PDF]
One purpose of wikis is the collaborative generation of content. During creation processes, controversies between authors emerge that they discuss on the article’s talk page.
Sven Heimbuch, Daniel Bodemer
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The main purpose of this study is to examine the predictive effects of maternal bonding and need for cognitive closure on relationship stability in the context of a model.
Ahmet Kayabaş, Hasan Atak
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Allport's prejudiced personality today: need for closure as the motivated cognitive basis of prejudice [PDF]
In the long history of psychological research on prejudice, Allport's (1954) book The Nature of Prejudice is undoubtedly the foundational work, advancing ideas that remain highly influential and relevant to this day.
Roets, Arne, Van Hiel, Alain
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The closed-mindedness that wasn’t: Need for structure and expectancy-inconsistent information
Social-cognitive researchers have typically assumed that individuals high in need for structure or need for closure tend to be closed-minded: they are motivated to resist or ignore information that is inconsistent with existing beliefs but instead they ...
Markus eKemmelmeier
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Three related studies are presented with the aim of investigating the individual differences in humour appreciation, sensation seeking and need for closure.
Filip Sulejmanov +2 more
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The rationale of this study is that scalar adverbs are likely to act as a convenient means to achieve cognitive closure because they stress the argumentative orientation of the message.
Vincent Coppola +2 more
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Is sexism a gender issue? A motivated social cognition perspective on men’s and women’s sexist attitudes toward own and other gender [PDF]
The present research investigated the antecedents of ambivalent sexism (i.e., hostile and benevolent forms) in both men and women toward own and other gender.
Aiken L. S. +8 more
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Thinking about the universe also includes thinking about hypothetical extraterrestrial intelligence. Two key questions arise: Why are we thinking about them in the first place? And why are we anthropomorphizing them?
Niklas Alexander Döbler +2 more
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The need for cognitive closure is a construct postulated by Kruglanski that explains the motivational aspects which influence decision-making and its impact on the social environment.
Luis Carlos Jaume +3 more
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Structural Equation Modeling of EFL Learners' Willingness to Communicate and Their Cognitive and Personality Traits [PDF]
This study aimed at investigating the relationship between Willingness to Communicate and EFL learners’ Communication Apprehension, Self-perceived Communicative Competence, Self-regulation, Need for Closure, Tolerance of Ambiguity as well as Aggression ...
Zahra Amirian +2 more
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