NEED FOR CLOSURE ON SOCIAL COGNITION/INTERACTION

该研究计划的长期目标是探索 其中动机影响社会判断的过程和 社会互动的相关方面。更具体的目标是 提出研究是为了研究特定的动机、需要 认知封闭，因为它影响到主要的认知和社会现象。一个 需要关闭的前提条件和后果的范围将 参照以下问题进行调查： 一、人们需要关闭的程度如何影响到 他们对社会目标的判断是基于预先存在的 概念或刻板印象(也就是“理论驱动的”)与案例 手头的信息(即“数据驱动”)。II.信息如何进入 暂时或长期可访问的构造的术语 关闭的需要如何影响人们确定因果关系的倾向 社会刺激领域显著部分的归因。 IV.小组成员经历的关闭需求如何影响他们的 对意见偏差的反应。 五、不同意见的成员之间在关闭的必要性方面的差异如何 群体影响他们的相对说服力。 所有上述问题都与主要的认知偏差有关 对它们的了解可能会对以下两个方面的健康产生重要影响 克服病痛提高健康教育效果 有头脑和选择性的信息处理，并促进 在治疗过程中对功能失调的信念系统进行修正。 共有16项实验研究是通过使用的理论概念 关于关闭的必要性的不同的业务定义。

The long terms objectives of the research program are to investigate ways in which motivation influences the processes of social judgment and relevant aspects of social interaction. The more specific aim of the proposed research is to study a particular motivation, the need for cognitive closure, as it affects major cognitive and social phenomena. A range of antecedent condition and consequences of the need for closure will be investigated in reference to the following questions: I. How persons' degree of the need for closure influences the degree to which their judgment of a social target are based on pre-existing conceptions or stereotypes (i.e., are "theory driven") versus on the case information at hand (i.e. are "data driven"). II. How information in terms of momentarily or chronically accessible constructs III. How the need for closure affects persons' tendency to level causal attribution at the salient portion of the social stimulus field. IV. How the need for closure experienced by group members affects their reactions to opinion deviants. V. How differences in the need for closure among disagreeing members of a group affect their relative persuasiveness. All of the foregoing issues bear on major cognitive biases the understanding of which may have important health consequences both for improving the efficacy of health education through the overcoming of close mindedness and selective information processing, and for facilitating the modification of dysfunctional belief systems in the course of therapy. Altogether sixteen experimental studies are theoretical notions through use of heterogenous operational definitions of the need for closure.