University and school students' motivation for effortful thinking: Factor structure, reliability, and validity of the German Need for Cognition Scale [PDF]
, 2010 Need for cognition (NFC) reflects a relatively stable trait regarding the degree to which one enjoys and engages in cognitive endeavors. We examined whether the previously demonstrated one-dimensional structure of the German NFC Scale could be replicated
Bertrams, Alex, Dickhäuser, Oliver
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Personality effects on cardiovascular reactivity: need for closure moderates the impact of task difficulty on engagement-related myocardial beta-adrenergic activity [PDF]
, 2012 An experiment assessed the joint effect of dispositional need for closure (NFC) and task difficulty on engagement-related myocardial beta-adrenergic activity.
Baeriswyl, Eric +2 more
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Need for cognition does not account for individual differences in metacontrol of decision making
Scientific Reports, 2022 Humans show metacontrol of decision making, that is they adapt their reliance on decision-making strategies toward situational differences such as differences in reward magnitude.
Florian Bolenz +4 more
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Validation of the test need for cognition: a study in behavioral accounting [PDF]
, 2013 This study aimed to validate the Need for Cognition scale (NFC) in behavioral accounting. In addition, we sought to measure the possible correlations between the level of need for cognition and the existence of cognitive biases in decisions in accounting
Aranha F. +35 more
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Frontline Learning Research, 2019 Self-generated information is better recognized and recalled than read information. This so-called generation effecthas been replicated several times for different types of stimulus material, different generation tasks, and retention intervals.
Julia Schindler +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Despite numerous studies on individual charitable donations and cause-related marketing have been conducted, the framing of the donation amount has not been studied. This research suggests that people's intention to donate to charity differs depending on
Eun Young Lee, Kyounghee Chu
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Need for cognition moderates the impairment of decision making caused by nightshift work in nurses
Scientific Reports, 2022 The current study explores the effect of nightshift work on the decision-making competence and performance of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and analyzes whether individual differences in the need for cognition (NFC) can moderate this effect.
Jiaxi Peng +5 more
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Individual differences in impulsivity and need for cognition as potential risk or resilience factors of diabetes self-management and glycemic control. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 ObjectiveImpulsivity is marked by insufficient reflection and forethought, whereas Need for Cognition (NFC) also referred to as cognitive motivation or intellectual engagement is marked by elaborated thinking. The aim of this study was to investigate the
Alexander Hadj-Abo +4 more
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Creative Mathematical Reasoning: Does Need for Cognition Matter?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 A large portion of mathematics education centers heavily around imitative reasoning and rote learning, raising concerns about students’ lack of deeper and conceptual understanding of mathematics.
Bert Jonsson +4 more
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Brain and Behavior, 2023 Background Need for cognition (NFC) represents interindividual differences in tendencies to engage and enjoy cognitive endeavors. Exploratory information seeking (EIS) refers to individual tendencies to attain cognitive stimulation through acquiring ...
Serenella Tolomeo +4 more
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