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Need for Cognition Related to Time Perception
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1986Undergraduates who scored high on need for cognition tended to underestimate a 90-sec. filled interval and their number of correct single solution anagrams tended to correlate negatively with estimated time. Subjects high in need for cognition repotted the task was easy but enjoyment and prior experience were similar.
B T, Baugh, S E, Mason
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Personality Traits and Need for Cognition
2021There is considerable anecdotal evidence suggesting that software engineers enjoy engaging in solving puzzles and other cognitive efforts. A tendency to engage in and enjoy effortful thinking is referred to as a person’s ‘need for cognition.’ In this article we study the relationship between software engineers’ personality traits and their need for ...
Masegosa, Andres R. +2 more
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Inferring A Player's Need For Cognition From Hints
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2016Player behavior during game play can be used to construct player models that help adapt the game and make it more fun for the player involved. Similarly in-game behavior could help model personality traits that describe people's attitudes in a fashion that can be stable over time and over different domains, e.g., to support health coaching, or other ...
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Need for Uniqueness, Need for Cognition, and Creativity
The Journal of Creative Behavior, 2003ABSTRACTThis study examined two neglected dispositional contributions to creativity, namely needs for uniqueness and cognition. Multiple measures of creativity were used including an inventory of creative accomplishments, preference for complex visual figures (a measure similar to the Barron‐Welsh Art Scale), unconventional rather than popular word ...
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Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2014
ABSTRACTNeed for Cognition and Need for Cognitive Closure are two stable traits that can enlighten the understanding of inter‐individual variations in information behavior. Following a qualitative phase, an information behavior scale was developed using items related to the ways in which information is needed, sought, used and shared.
Alexandre Fortier, Jacquelyn Burkell
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ABSTRACTNeed for Cognition and Need for Cognitive Closure are two stable traits that can enlighten the understanding of inter‐individual variations in information behavior. Following a qualitative phase, an information behavior scale was developed using items related to the ways in which information is needed, sought, used and shared.
Alexandre Fortier, Jacquelyn Burkell
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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2008
Three experiments tested the hypothesis that need for affect and need for cognition influence receptivity to affect- and cognition-based persuasive messages. Experiment 1 found that an affective message elicited more positive attitudes among individuals high in need for affect and low in need for cognition, whereas a cognitive message elicited more ...
Geoffrey, Haddock +3 more
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Three experiments tested the hypothesis that need for affect and need for cognition influence receptivity to affect- and cognition-based persuasive messages. Experiment 1 found that an affective message elicited more positive attitudes among individuals high in need for affect and low in need for cognition, whereas a cognitive message elicited more ...
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Receivers' Apprehension and Need for Cognition
Psychological Reports, 1988Examining the relationship between receivers' apprehension and need for cognition of 71 Florida college undergraduates indicated the two characteristics are inversely related. Findings were discussed in terms of implications for research on change of attitudes.
Buhr, Thomas A., Pryor, Burt
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Need for cognitive closure and coping strategies
International Journal of Psychology, 2002This 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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Motivational correlates of need for cognition
European Journal of Social Psychology, 2008AbstractNeed for cognition is usually characterized as an intrinsic desire to engage in challenging intellectual activity. In achievement situations, however, it could be associated with more extrinsic goals such as success or the avoidance of failure. Three experiments examined this possibility.
Steinhart, Yael, Wyer, Robert S.
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THE ARMY’S NEED FOR COGNITIVE ENGINEERING
SAE Technical Paper Series, 2009<title>ABSTRACT</title> <p>Imagine Soldiers reacting to an unpredictable, dynamic, stressful situation on the battlefield. How those Soldiers think about the information presented to them by the system or other Soldiers during this situation – and how
Kaleb McDowell, Harry J. Zywiol
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