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Human Factors of a Global Society
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Human Factors of a Global Society

by Tadeusz Marek, Waldemar Karwowski, Marek Frankowicz, Jussi Kantola, Pavel Zgaga
June 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1177 pages
50h 23m
English
CRC Press
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A Short Version of the
Need for Closure Scale
Item Selection and Scale Validation*
Małgorzata Kossowska, Krzysztof Hanusz, and Mariusz Trejtowicz
INTRODUCTION
Webster and Kruglanski (1994) created the Need for Cognitive Closure (NFC) construct to describe
and explain individual differences in the extent to which people aim for and achieve rm belief
in order to reduce uncertainty and ambiguity. Research shows that the NFC inuences the way in
which people create and use mental representations such as schemas, prototypes, and stereotypes,
and determines the way that they think and feel about the social world and how they act within it
(revi ...
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