The efficient assessment of need for cognition.

By John T. Cacioppo, Richard E. Petty, C. F. Kao. 1984

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Approaching and avoiding arguments: The role of epistemological beliefs, need for cognition, and extraverted personality traits (2003, background): “’’ The short form has good reliability (a 1⁄4 :90) and is characterized by one dominant factor (Cacioppo et al., 1984).”
Instructional Manipulation Checks: Detecting Satisficing to Increase Statistical Power (2009, methodology): “As this scale is known to be internally consistent, participants' answers on the positive items should be negatively correlated with the answers on the reverse-scored items (Cacioppo et al., 1984).”
Explanation Fiends and Foes: How Mechanistic Detail Determines Understanding and Preference (2013, background): “The secondary objective was to evaluate whether the effects on understanding predicted by cognitive reflection are also predicted by a related measure, the NFC scale (Cacioppo, Petty, and Kao 1984).”
Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment (2012, background): “The Need for Cognition test (Cacioppo et al., 1984) measures how much an individual enjoys effortful cognitive activity.”
Not All Ideologies are Created Equal: Epistemic, Existential, and Relational Needs Predict System-Justifying Attitudes (2012, methodology): “To assess individual variability in chronic epistemic needs, we administered the Need for Cognition scale (Cacioppo et al., 1984), which measures the tendency to engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive activity.”
Coping with Accountability Cross-Pressures: Low-Effort Evasive Tactics and High-Effort Quests for Complex Compromises (2000, methodology): “We included the 18-item Need for Cognition scale ( Cacioppo, Petty, & Kao, 1984 ), which measures enjoyment of cognitive effort.1”
When Does Humor Enhance or Inhibit Ad Responses? - The Moderating Role Of The Need For Humor (2003, background): “Alpha reliability for the 18-item scale (Cacioppo, Petty, and Kao 1984) is .87.”
Data quality of platforms and panels for online behavioral research (2021, unknown): “Reliability was measured using the NFC scale (Cacioppo et al., 1984), which measures the extent to which respondents like to engage in and enjoy thinking, and the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking Scale (DOSPERT; Blais & Weber, 2006), which evaluates self-reported risk-taking behavior.”
Need for Cognition Moderates Responses to Framed Smoking‐Cessation Messages1 (2003, methodology): “The items were adapted from questions on the short form of the NFC scale (Cacioppo et al., 1984).”
Habits in everyday life: thought, emotion, and action. (2002, methodology): “These included the Need for Cognition Scale ( Cacioppo, Petty, & Kao, 1984 ), the Need to Evaluate Scale (Jarvis & Petty, 1996), the Affect Intensity Measure (Larsen, Diener, & Emmons, 1986), the Personal Need for Structure (Neuberg & Newsom, 1993), and additionally in Study 2, the Emotional Intensi”
Self‐Validation of Cognitive Responses to Advertisements (2004, methodology): “Participants completed the 18- item version of the need for cognition scale (Cacioppo et al. 1984).”