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Need for Closure as a New Neuropsychological Concept [PDF]
Psikiyatride Güncel YaklaşımlarNeed for cognitive closure, is one of the basic topics of behavioral neuroscience which has recently gained greater attention, and can be defined as the desire for an answer on a given topic, any answer, compared to confusion and ambiguity.
Hasan Atak +3 more
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Trusting others: The polarization effect of need for closure. [PDF]
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2014 Because trust-related issues inherently involve uncertainty, we expected individuals' social-cognitive motivation to manage uncertainty--which is captured by their need for closure--to influence their level of trust in others. Through the results of 6 studies, we showed that higher need for closure was related to more polarized trust judgments (i.e ...
Acar-Burkay, Sinem +2 more
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The need for closure in caregivers of people with psychosis
Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale, 2010 SummaryAim – The aim of the study was to determine how carer need for closure relates to expressed emotion. It also examined the links between carer need for closure and patient functioning including patient need for closure. Methods – In a cross-sectional study, 70 caregivers of patients with psychosis completed the Need for Closure Scale (NFCS), the ...
Onwumere, Juliana +6 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. +7 more
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The intergenerational transmission of need for closure underlies the transmission of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice [PDF]
, 2013 Previous research has identified need for closure (NFC) as an important motivational cognitive basis of authoritarianism and prejudice. However, to date, the role of NFC in the intergenerational similarity in authoritarianism and prejudice has remained ...
Roets, Arne +2 more
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The Construction of the Need for Emotional Closure Scale
, 2021 We are interested in creating a valid scale to measure the need for emotional closure. The developed scale includes items asking for the extent to which individuals need for emotional closure over past ...
Irem Ergen, Sami Gulgoz
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Self-subjugation among women: Exposure to sexist ideology, self-objectification, and the protective function of the need to avoid closure. [PDF]
, 2011 Despite extensive evidence confirming the negative consequences of self-objectification, direct experimental evidence concerning its environmental antecedents is scarce.
Jost, John T. +3 more
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Studia 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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British Journal of Psychology, 2012 In contrast to the ample research that shows a positive relationship between the need for closure ( NFC ) and heuristic information processing, this research examines the hypothesis that this relationship is moderated by the ability to achieve closure ( AAC
Kossowska, Małgorzata, Bar-Tal, Yoram
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Frontiers 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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