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Addressing the effect of concern with COVID-19 threat on prejudice towards immigrants: The sequential mediating role of need for cognitive closure and desire for cultural tightness. [PDF]

Int J Intercult Relat, 2023
Albarello F, Mula S, Contu F, Baldner C, Kruglanski AW, Pierro A.   +5 more
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Motivation to Avoid Uncertainty, Implicit Person Theories about the Malleability of Human Attributes and Attitudes toward Women as Leaders vs. Followers: A Mediational Analysis

Behavioral Sciences
This research investigated the relation between motivation to avoid uncertainty, as reflected in the need for cognitive closure, implicit theories about the malleability of human attributes, and attitudes toward women as leaders vs. followers. In a cross-
Federico Contu, Flavia Albarello, Antonio Pierro   +2 more
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Why Does Drinking Alcohol Affect Risk-Seeking Behavior? A Test of the Need for Cognitive Closure Hypothesis [PDF]

, 2015
Research suggests that the drinking environment can affect dynamic processes involved in group decision making. The current study evaluated the need for cognitive closure (NFCC) as a mechanism underlying previously observed effects of alcohol dosage-set (
Dimoff, John D
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Routes of motivation: stable psychological dispositions are associated with dynamic changes in cortico-cortical functional connectivity.

PLoS ONE, 2014
The present study provides a neurobiological framework to the theory of epistemic motivation that has been extensively studied for the last three decades in the domain of social cognition. Epistemic motivations affect the way people generate and validate
Vanda Viola, Annalisa Tosoni, Arie W Kruglanski, Gaspare Galati, Lucia Mannetti   +4 more
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Need for cognitive closure predicts stress and anxiety of college students during COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

Pers Individ Dif, 2022
White HA.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Influence of Regret Proneness, Evidence Strengthening, and Perceived Responsibility on Verdict Preference [PDF]

, 2011
In the present study, we investigated perceived responsibility, evidence strengthening, and defendant gender in the context of a criminal trial involving DNA.
Oglesby, Stephanie L.
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Need for cognitive closure and trust towards government predicting pandemic behavior and mental health: comparing United States and China. [PDF]

Curr Psychol, 2022
Wang C, Tang N, Zhen D, Wang XR, Zhang J, Cheong Y, Zhu Q.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Tracing the Biological Roots of Knowledge [PDF]

, 2006
The essay is a critical review of three possible approaches in the theory of knowledge while tracing the biological roots of knowledge: empiricist, rationalist and developmentalist approaches. Piaget's genetic epistemology, a developmentalist
Nagarjuna, G.
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Linking the behavioral immune system to COVID-19 vaccination intention: The mediating role of the need for cognitive closure and vaccine hesitancy. [PDF]

Pers Individ Dif, 2022
Solak Ç, Peker-Dural H, Karlıdağ S, Peker M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Towards Autopoietic Computing

, 2010
A key challenge in modern computing is to develop systems that address complex, dynamic problems in a scalable and efficient way, because the increasing complexity of software makes designing and maintaining efficient and flexible systems increasingly ...
A. Bowyer, A. Weber, B. Goertzel, F. Varela, F. Varela, G. Brown, G. Fleischaker, G. Kampis, G.M. Weinberg, H. Maturana, J. Casti, J. Letelier, J. Letelier, J. Mingers, L. Bertalanffy von, M. Boden, P. Bentley, R. Rosen, R.E. Kalman, T. Nomura, T. Rado   +20 more
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