POLITICAL CONSERVATISM AS MOTIVATED SOCIAL COGNITION


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Representative Publications on Need for Closure



Mannetti, L., Pierro, A., Kruglanski, A. W., Taris, T., & Bezinovic, P. (in press).
A cross-cultural study of the need for cognitive closure scale: Comparing its
structure in Croatia, Italy, the USA and the Netherlands.
British Journal of Social Psychology.

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De Grada, E., Kruglanski, A. W., Mannetti, L., & Pierro, A. (1999).
Motivated cognition and group interaction: need for closure affects the contents
and processes of collective negotiations. Journal of Experimental
Social Psychology, 35, 346-365.

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Shah, J. Y., Kruglanski, A. W., & Thompson, E. P. (1998).
Membership has its (epistemic) rewards: Need for closure effects on ingroup bias.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 383-393.

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Kruglanski, A. W., Atash, M. N., De Grada, E., Mannetti, L., & Pierro, A. (1997).
Psychological theory testing versus psychometric nay saying: Need for closure
scale and the Neuberg et al. critique.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 1005-1016.

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Rubini, M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (1997). Brief encounters ending
in estrangement: Motivated language-use and interpersonal rapport.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 12, 1047-1060.

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Webster, D. M., Kruglanski, A. W., & Pattison, D. A. (1997).
Motivated language-use in intergroup contexts: Need for closure effects
on the linguistic intergroup bias.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 1122-1131.

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Kruglanski, A. W., & Webster, D. M. (1996).
Motivated closing of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing". Psychological Review,
103, 263-283.

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Webster, D. M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (1994). Individual differences in
need for cognitive closure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
67, 1049-1062.

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Kruglanski, A. W., & Freund, T. (1983). The freezing and
un-freezing of lay inferences: Effects on impressional primacy, ethnic stereotyping and numerical anchoring. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,
19, 448-468.

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