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Item selection and validation of a brief, 15-item version of the need for closure scale

Arne Roets, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2011 - 
- Vol. 50, Iss: 1, pp 90-94
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In this paper, the authors proposed a 15-item selection comprising three items from each facet scale for the Need for Closure (NFC) scale, based on data obtained from an aggregated heterogeneous sample.
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This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2011-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 420 citations till now.

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Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories

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‘Fake news’: Incorrect, but hard to correct. The role of cognitive ability on the impact of false information on social impressions

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The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people

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Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis : Conventional criteria versus new alternatives

TL;DR: In this article, the adequacy of the conventional cutoff criteria and several new alternatives for various fit indexes used to evaluate model fit in practice were examined, and the results suggest that, for the ML method, a cutoff value close to.95 for TLI, BL89, CFI, RNI, and G...
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The need for cognition.

TL;DR: In this paper, a scale to assess the need for cognition (i.e., the tendency for an individual to engage in and enjoy thinking) was developed and validated, and a factor analysis was performed on the selected items and yielded one major factor.
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Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes.

TL;DR: Social dominance orientation (SDO), one's degree of preference for inequality among social groups, is introduced in this article, which is related to beliefs in a lag number of social and political ideologies that support group-based hierarchy and to support for policies that have implications for intergroup relations (e.g., war, civil rights, and social programs).
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Handbook of motivation and cognition : foundations of social behavior

TL;DR: The "warm look" as mentioned in this paper is a synergistic approach to the roles of "hot" motivations and "cold" cognitions in the production of behavior, and it can be seen as an attempt to bridge the gap between thought and action.
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Individual differences in need for cognitive closure

TL;DR: The present findings suggest that the Need for Closure Scale is a reliable and valid instrument of considerable potential utility in future "motivated social cognition" research.
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