Item selection and validation of a brief, 15-item version of the need for closure scale
Arne Roets,Alain Van Hiel +1 more
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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.About:
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.read more
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Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories
TL;DR: Ass associations between belief in conspiracy theories and a range of measures of thinking dispositions and an alternative method of eliciting analytic thinking, which related to cognitive disfluency, was effective at reducing conspiracist ideation in a student sample.
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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
Jonas De keersmaecker,Arne Roets +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined how people adjust their judgment after they learn that crucial information on which their initial evaluation was based is incorrect and found that people generally do adjust their attitudes, but the degree to which they correct their assessment depends on their cognitive ability.
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Cognitive and interpersonal features of intellectual humility.
Mark R. Leary,Kate J. Diebels,Erin K. Davisson,Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno,Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno,Jennifer C. Isherwood,Kaitlin T. Raimi,Kaitlin T. Raimi,Samantha A. Deffler,Samantha A. Deffler,Rick H. Hoyle +10 more
TL;DR: This research demonstrates that the IH Scale is a valid measure of the degree to which people recognize that their beliefs are fallible.
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The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people
Todd B. Kashdan,Melissa C. Stiksma,David J. Disabato,Patrick E. McKnight,John Bekier,Joel Kaji,Rachel Lazarus +6 more
TL;DR: The Five-Dimensional Curiosity Scale (5DC) as mentioned in this paper ) is a multidimensional measure of curiosity, which is based on five distinct factors: Joyous Exploration, Deprivation Sensitivity, Stress Tolerance, Social Curiosity, and Thrill Seeking.
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Multicultural experiences reduce intergroup bias through epistemic unfreezing
TL;DR: The beneficial effects of multiculturalism were found regardless of the targeted stereotype group, regardless of whether multicultural experience was measured or manipulated, and irrespective of the population sampled, demonstrating the robustness of this phenomenon.
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Li-tze Hu,Peter M. Bentler +1 more
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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.