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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"need for closure"”.
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Testing Underlying Mechanisms of Forgiveness: Need for Closure and Accessibility
The abundance of forgiveness research has advanced scientific knowledge of the construct. Its multifaceted nature, however, has created specialization and domain-dependent research (e.g., close-relationship vs. non-relationship forgiveness). The current paper argues that a comprehensive framework …
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The Moderating Effects of Need for Closure on the Common Ingroup Identity Model
… Common Ingroup Identity Model and its link to need for closure, a cognitive construct that causes individuals to seek out quick and finite answers. Based on previous research, I predicted that participants high in situational and dispositional need for closure would be more responsive to the …
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Conservative Mind: A Focus on Introspection and Worldview
… where individuals are essentially hedonistic and need rules and regulations in order to behave morally. Empirical research has also indicated that conservatives are generally higher in authoritarianism, intolerance for ambiguity, dogmatism, and need for closure than liberals. Based on these …
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Ethical Decision-Making Regarding Multiple Relationships Between Therapist and Client
… models and specific behavioral guidelines. For the ethical decision-making process to begin, a practitioner must be able to recognize the presenting problem as an ethical dilemma (Brazerman, 1986; Jones, 1991; Street et al., 2001; Zur, 2007). Street et al. proposed that the degree to which …
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Abductive reasoning and limitations of the knower
… study examined the effects of epistemic beliefs, foreclosed cognitive styles, and religiosity on a newly designed measure of abductive reasoning (Hertzog, Hale, & Krepps, 2015). Abductive reasoning is reasoning to the best explanation based on given evidence. This evidence can be incomplete and …
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Come a Little Closer: Examining Spillover Priming Effects from a Network Perspective
… President Obama being portrayed as responsible for the issue. A newspaper article was manipulated to portray a fictional congressional candidate named Steve Easterly as either strongly or weakly tied to President Obama. After exposure to the primes, participants were asked to answer a series of …
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The Intersection of Threat, Disposition, and the Political
… (1989) theory of lay epistemic – specifically need for closure (NFC) – is a valuable and understudied theoretical tool in understanding the link between threat, disposition, and mass political attitudes.</p> <p>This linkage is examined over the three empirical chapters. The first empirical …
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The New Endangered Species: Community-Anchoring Public Schools
Often, school closures are seen as a "natural order" of events in communities with extreme economic struggles. My work challenges this premise. </p><p>In Pennsylvania, communities where schools selected for closure are often composed of rural, largely white or urban, largely minority, populations …
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Vulnerability to Online Political Misinformation: The Role of Non-clinical Schizotypal Traits
… are nothing new, the rise of online misinformation brings with it new challenges and concerns. Online misinformation has become particularly problematic due to its global reach and the incredible speed at which it can spread. Furthermore, it has been suggested that the propagation of …