The Psychology of Closed Mindedness

By Arie W. Kruglanski. 2004

496 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d385ceba85d890eba383fa44b1e81d988bb2d19f

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Communication

In Social Psychology

Citations in the corpus

Intuitive and deliberate judgments are based on common principles. (2011, background): “, & Kruglanski, A. W. (2006). The role of task demands and”
Ethos of conflict: The concept and its measurement. (2012, background): “The societal beliefs of EOC are frozen, and this freezing implies a motivation to continue to hold these beliefs as truthful and reluctance to search and process information that may refute them (Kruglanski, 2004; Kruglanski & Webster, 1996).”
Motivated Closed-Mindedness Mediates the Effect of Threat on Political Conservatism (2011, background): “Furthermore, as we have seen with regard to fear, threat, and anxiety, the need for closure is often associated with a decrease in systematic information processing (e.g., DeDreu, Koole, & Oldersma, 1999; Kruglanski, 2004).”
A metaphor-enriched social cognition. (2010, background): “Meier, Sellbom, and Wygant (2007) reported similar results involving the abstract target concepts of morality (associated with high vertical position) and immorality (associated with low vertical position).”
The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind (2008, unknown): “Furthermore, conservatives tend to possess stronger personal needs for order, structure, closure, and decisiveness in comparison with liberals (e.g., Jost et al., 2003a, 2003b; Kruglanski, 2005; Van Hiel, Pandelaere, & Duriez, 2004).”
Why is it so hard to do my work? The challenge of attention residue when switching between work tasks (2009, background): “Indeed, people can keep thinking about a task even after it is finished (e.g. Kruglanski, 2004, 1989).”
Political conservatism and variety-seeking (2014, unknown): “003 conservatives possess stronger needs for order, structure, closure, and decisiveness than liberals (Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003; Kruglanski, 2004; McCrae, 1996).”
Job insecurity influence on job performance and mental health: Testing the moderating effect of the need for closure (2010, methodology): “The Need for Cognitive Closure is a construct developed within the framework of the Lay Epistemology Theory and motivated social cognition approach (Kruglanski, 2004).”
Attitude Change in Competitive Framing Environments? Open-/Closed-Mindedness, Framing Effects, and Climate Change (2013, background): “Kruglanski (2004) describes the closed-minded as engaging in a process in which they might briefly consider the arguments and then stop as soon as an acceptable conclusion is reached, or in other cases simply seize on prior opinions and discount new information that may be inconsistent.”
The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism (2014, background): “Among individual factors prompting commitment to ideologically identified goals one could count the need for cognitive closure, (Kruglanski, 2004), locomotion orientation, dependency (Merari, 2010), conformism, rejection sensitivity, aggressiveness, et cetera.”
Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “Threats also sometimes cause closed-minded aversion to uncertain or unstable phenomena (Jost et al., 2007; Kruglanski, 2004) and devotion to stability-conferring political or religious systems (Kay et al., 2008; Kay, Shepherd, Blatz, Chua, &Galinsky, 2010) or scientific theories (Rutjens, Van der…”
“Do I have enough food?” How need for cognitive closure and gender impact stockpiling and food waste during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-national study in India and the United States of America (2020, background): “Need for cognitive closure (NFC) has been defined as “the individual's desire for a firm answer to a question, any firm answer, as opposed to confusion and/or ambiguity” (Kruglanski, 2004, p. 6).”
Shared Reality: Experiencing Commonality with others' Inner States about the World (2009, background): “The strength of epistemic motives typically increases with uncertainty or ambiguity about a target referent (e.g., Berlyne, 1962; Hogg, 2007; Kruglanski, 2004).”
The end of the end of ideology. (2006, background): “Research suggests that conservatives are often prone to expedient, closed-minded, and authoritarian solutions (e.g., Altemeyer, 1988, 1998; Kruglanski, 2004; Sidanius et al., 1996).”
Socio–Psychological Barriers to Peace Making: The Case of the Israeli Jewish Society (2010, background): “In addition to the structural factor, the motivational force that contributes to freezing is a specific need for closure (see Kruglanski, 1989, 2004).”
Ageing and generational effects on vote choice: Combining cross-sectional and panel data to estimate APC effects (2014, background): “…conservatism and authoritarianism (Wilson 1973; Feather 1977; Truett 1993), cognitive inflexibility or close-mindedness (Jost et al. 2003; Kruglanski 2005) and long-term attitude stability indicative of a resistance to change (Alwin et al. 1991; Alwin and Krosnick 1991; Neundorf et al.…”
Three decades of lay epistemics: The why, how, and who of knowledge formation (2009, background): “More extensive recent reviews are given in Kruglanski and Webster (1996), Kruglanski (2004), and in Kruglanski, Pierro, Mannetti, and DeGrada (2006c).”
Is Sexism a Gender Issue? A Motivated Social Cognition Perspective on Men's and Women's Sexist Attitudes toward Own and Other Gender (2012, methodology): “Another study by Pierro, Mannetti, De Grada, Livi, and Kruglanski (2003) showed that in groups consisting of members high in dispositional NFC as well as in groups in which NFC was experimentally induced, autocratic group structures wherein influence emanates from a centralized authority are more re”