Need for cognitive closure and politics: Voting, political attitudes and attributional style
By Antonio Chirumbolo, Alessandra Areni, Gilda Sensales. 2004
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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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In Social Psychology
- John T. Jost
- Jaime L. Napier
- Christopher M. Federico
- Arie W. Kruglanski
- Antonio Pierro
- Edward Orehek
- A. Cisłak
- Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
In Sociology and Political Science
- John T. Jost
- Jaime L. Napier
- Christopher M. Federico
- Arie W. Kruglanski
- Antonio Pierro
- Edward Orehek
- A. Cisłak
- Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
Citations in the corpus
- Reflective liberals and intuitive conservatives: A look at the Cognitive Reflection Test and ideology (2015, unknown): “Conservatism is consistently associated with traits like need for cognitive closure and order, intolerance of ambiguity, and lower levels of cognitive complexity (Chirumbolo et al., 2004; Federico et al., 2005; Golec & Federico, 2004; Jost et al., 2007; Zavala et al., 2010).”
- Political Conservatism, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Intergroup Hostility (2010, background): “…(Golec, 2002a; Kossowska & van Hiel, 2003), right-wing party identification (Kemmelmeier, 1997), favorable attitude toward death penalty (Jost, Kruglanski & Simon, 1999), stronger anti-immigrant and nationalistic attitudes (Chirumbolo et al., 2004) and general punitiveness (Sargent, 2004).”
- Political ideology: its structure, functions, and elective affinities. (2009, background): “…measures the motivation to " seize and freeze " on beliefs that offer simplicity, certainty, and clarity, are significantly more likely to hold conservative or right-wing attitudes ( Jost et al. 2003b, pp. 358–359; see also Chirumbolo et al. 2004, Leone & Chirumbolo 2008, Van Hiel et al. 2004).”
- Three decades of lay epistemics: The why, how, and who of knowledge formation (2009, background): “Finally, Chirumbolo, Areni, and Sensales (2004) found that Italian students high (vs low) on the need for closure were more nationalistic, religious, exhibited a preference for rightwing political parties, reported anti-immigrant attitudes, scored lower on pluralism and multiculturalism, and…”