Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge: Cognitive and Motivational Bases

By Arie W. Kruglanski. 2013

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Ideology, Fear of Death, and Death Anxiety (2011, background): “Recently, the debate has been reinvigorated by the publication of a meta-analysis by Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, and Sulloway (2003), who attempt to explain conservatism by proposing a theoretical framework which includes both dispositional and contextual factors and takes into account the impact of s”
A Review and Model of Auditor Judgments in Fraud-Related Planning Tasks (2011, background): “2 Epistemic motivation is the extent to which people develop rich and accurate understandings of situations (Kruglanski 1989).”
The Role of Epistemic Emotions in Personal Epistemology and Self-Regulated Learning (2018, background): “Alternatively, if confusion arises due to some cognitive incongruity, or frustration if they judge the information to be difficult to learn, laborious, or aversive, then individuals high on need for closure will be driven to “seize” on early information and immediately “freeze,” subsequently ignorin”
The ability to influence others via emotion displays (2011, background): “Epistemic motivation is the degree to which a person is motivated to develop and maintain a complex understanding of situations (Kruglanski, 1989).”
Cognitive Consistency Theory in Social Psychology: A Paradigm Reconsidered (2018, background): “Because consistent or inconsistent cognitions ultimately affect a belief, or expectancy concerning some desirable or undesirable outcome, it is appropriate here to discuss epistemic motivations, namely, motivations to have or to avoid beliefs of different kinds (Kruglanski, 1989).”
Cognitive Dissonance or Credibility? A Comparison of Two Theoretical Explanations for Selective Exposure to Partisan News (2020, background): “Lay epistemics theory (Kruglanski, 1989) and the theory of motivated reasoning (Kunda, 1990) suggest that the rigor of people’s information searches is guided by whether they desire accurate (objective) or directional (biased) information.”
The role of mentalizing and epistemic trust in the therapeutic relationship. (2014, background): “This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly. lanski (Kruglanski, 1989; Kruglanski & Webster, 1996; Pierro & Kruglanski, 2008) proposed the concept of epistemic freezing, characterized by a tendency to defend existing knowledge…”
Effects of Employees’ Positive Affective Displays on Customer Loyalty Intentions: An Emotions-as-Social-Information Perspective (2017, background): “…and (b) customers’ epistemic motivation, or the motivation to develop and maintain a rich and accurate understanding of one’s current situation (Kruglanski, 1989; Van Kleef, De Dreu, & Manstead, 2004), alters the effect of employees’ display intensity and authenticity on customer responses.”