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Relationship Stability in Emerging Adulthood: The Predictions of Maternal Bonding and Need for Cognitive Closure

open access: yesPsikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2021
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]

open access: yes, 2011
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

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
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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The development of the Humor Structure Appreciation Scale and its relation to Sensation Seeking Inventory and Need for Closure Scale

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2018
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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A Strong Argumentative Orientation Makes the Cognitive Closure Easier: The Case for a Persuasive Health Message

open access: yesStudia Psychologica, 2020
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]

open access: yes, 2012
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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Is there anybody out there? Can individual loneliness, need for closure, and religiosity predict the belief in extraterrestrial life and intelligence?

open access: yesDiscover Psychology, 2023
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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Factor Structure and Internal Consistency on a Reduced Version of the Revised Test of Need for Cognitive Closure

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
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]

open access: yesApplied Research on English Language, 2020
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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When the need for closure promotes complex cognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Lay epistemic theory is one of the most popular theoretical frameworks describing the knowledge formation process. According to it, the central variable determining the epistemic process is the need for cognitive closure.
Kossowska, Małgorzata   +2 more
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