Exploring the feasibility, sustainability and the benefits of the GrACE + GAIT exercise programme in the residential aged care setting [PDF]
, 2019 Fien, S ORCiD: 0000-0003-0181-5458Background: The feasibility and benefits of a 24-week targeted progressive supervised resistance and weight-bearing exercise programme (Group Aged Care Exercise + GAIT (GrACE + GAIT)) in the residential aged care (RAC ...
Climstein, Mike +4 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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The Physicalist Worldview as Neurotic Ego-Defense Mechanism [PDF]
, 2016 The physicalist worldview is often portrayed as a dispassionate interpretation of reality motivated purely by observable facts. In this article, ideas of both depth and social psychology are used to show that this portrayal may not be accurate ...
Kastrup, Bernardo
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Need for closure and cognitive structuring among younger and older adults [PDF]
Polish Psychological Bulletin, 2012 Need for closure and cognitive structuring among younger and older adults The paper reported two correlational studies. The aim of the Study 1 was to examine the hypothesis that age moderates the relationship between need for closure (NFC) and cognitive structuring.
Kossowska, Małgorzata +2 more
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Epistemic motivation affects the processing of negative emotional stimuli in interpersonal decisions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The present electrophysiological study investigated the role of the need for cognitive closure (NFC) in emotional processing. The NFC is conceptualized as an epistemic motive that is related to how and why people seek out information in social ...
Zhenyu eWei +3 more
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Effect of Energy Harvesting on Stable Throughput in Cooperative Relay Systems
, 2015 In this paper, the impact of energy constraints on a two-hop network with a source, a relay and a destination under random medium access is studied.
Ephremides, Anthony +4 more
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Cognitive constraints, contraction consistency, and the satisficing criterion [PDF]
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A Dynamic Solution to the Problem of Logical Omniscience [PDF]
, 2019 The traditional possible-worlds model of belief describes agents as ‘logically omniscient’ in the sense that they believe all logical consequences of what they believe, including all logical truths.
Bjerring, Jens, Skipper, Mattias
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On the Need for Cognitive Closure and Judgmental Trend Forecasting
Argumenta Oeconomica Cracoviensia, 2017 The paper considers the following hypothesis: humans’ need for cognitive closure reduces the usage of historical observations in judgmental forecasts only in horizontal trends. To test this hypothesis, three studies were conducted. In each, participants forecasted the next, unknown observation using the previous time series.
Marcin Czupryna +2 more
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Pandemic, Perceived Risk, and Cognitive Dissonance as Antecedents to Need for Cognitive Closure
International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology, 2022 The purpose of this article is to examine the influence of pandemic, perceived risk, and cognitive dissonance on the need for cognitive closure. A consumer today wants an aversion towards the ambiguity that is created due to this pandemic. The data is collected using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk panel.
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