Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and the Need for Cognitive Closure [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 An important component of conspiracy theories is how they influence, and are influenced by, the evaluation of potential evidence. Some individuals may be more open minded regarding certain explanations for events whereas others may seek closure and thus ...
Patrick John LEMAN, Marco eCinnirella
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Need for cognitive closure, tolerance for ambiguity, and perfectionism in medical school applicants [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2020 Background Physicians have to deal with uncertainty on a daily basis, which requires high tolerance for ambiguity. When medical decisions have to be made in ambiguous situations, low levels of need for cognitive closure and high levels of adaptive ...
Julia Gärtner +4 more
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Need for Cognitive Closure Modulates How Perceptual Decisions Are Affected by Task Difficulty and Outcome Relevance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which Need for Cognitive Closure (NCC), an individual-level epistemic motivation, can explain inter-individual variability in the cognitive effort invested on a perceptual decision making task (the random
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Cultural threat perceptions predict violent extremism via need for cognitive closure. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Understanding the psychological processes that drive violent extremism is a pressing global issue. Across six studies, we demonstrate that perceived cultural threats lead to violent extremism because they increase people’s need for cognitive closure (NFC).
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Factor Structure and Internal Consistency on a Reduced Version of the Revised Test of Need for Cognitive Closure [PDF]
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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Expectations do not need to be accurate to be maintained: Valence and need for cognitive closure predict expectation update vs. persistence [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Expectations about us and our environment serve to successfully anticipate the future, make accurate predictions, and guide behavior and decisions. However, when expectations are not accurate, individuals need to resolve or minimize incongruence.
Larissa Henss, Martin Pinquart
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When the need for closure promotes complex cognition [PDF]
Roczniki Psychologiczne, 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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Search for Expectancy-inconsistent Information Reduces Uncertainty Better: The Role of Cognitive Capacity [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Motivation and cognitive capacity are key factors in people’s everyday struggle with uncertainty. However, the exact nature of their interplay in various contexts still needs to be revealed.
Paweł eStrojny +3 more
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Interaction of guidance types and the Need for Cognitive Closure in wiki-based learning [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 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 relationship between college students’ legal cognition and maladaptive risk-taking behaviors: the moderating effect of need for cognitive closure [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyLegal socialization refers to the developmental process through which individuals form beliefs, values, and attitudes toward the law. A key component of this process is legal cognition, which includes concrete legal cognition and abstract legal cognition.
Yu Hu +5 more
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