Multifaceted effects of need for cognitive closure on effort : a cardiovascular response study

2017
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dc.abstract.enNeed for Closure (NFC) refers to an individual’s aversion to uncertainty and desire to quickly resolve it. Although numerous studies have demonstrated that this need leads to a reluctance to invest effort in judgments and decision making, we argue that NFC may be associated with less or more effort investment depending on key features of the performance situation and instrumentality of effort for achieving closure. Specifically, we expect that high (vs. low) NFC individuals should exert less effort when both lowand high-effort performance options are available and both afford closure. By contrast, they should exert more effort when task-related uncertainty causes that only effortful means are instrumental for the goal of achieving closure. If only a high-performance option allows the task goal to be attained and instructions how to perform a task are clear and specific, there will be no differences between high and low NFC participants. We tested these hypotheses in an experiment framed in terms of Motivational Intensity Theory. The experiment asked participants to solve cognitive tasks under relevant performance circumstances, indexing effort through assessment of systolic blood pressure (SBP) responses. Results were supportive. They help to account for contradictory findings in the NFC literature and add substantively to the broader literature concerned with determinants and cardiovascular correlates of effort.pl
dc.affiliationWydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Psychologiipl
dc.contributor.authorSzumowska, Ewa - 107756 pl
dc.contributor.authorSzwed, Paulina - 122727 pl
dc.contributor.authorKossowska, Małgorzata - 129191 pl
dc.contributor.authorWright, Rexpl
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-05T09:25:52Z
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dc.date.issued2017pl
dc.description.number4pl
dc.description.physical369-382pl
dc.description.volume3pl
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/mot0000053pl
dc.identifier.eissn2333-8121pl
dc.identifier.issn2333-8113pl
dc.identifier.urihttps://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/51094
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dc.titleMultifaceted effects of need for cognitive closure on effort : a cardiovascular response studypl
dc.title.journalMotivation Sciencepl
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Need for Closure (NFC) refers to an individual’s aversion to uncertainty and desire to quickly resolve it. Although numerous studies have demonstrated that this need leads to a reluctance to invest effort in judgments and decision making, we argue that NFC may be associated with less or more effort investment depending on key features of the performance situation and instrumentality of effort for achieving closure. Specifically, we expect that high (vs. low) NFC individuals should exert less effort when both lowand high-effort performance options are available and both afford closure. By contrast, they should exert more effort when task-related uncertainty causes that only effortful means are instrumental for the goal of achieving closure. If only a high-performance option allows the task goal to be attained and instructions how to perform a task are clear and specific, there will be no differences between high and low NFC participants. We tested these hypotheses in an experiment framed in terms of Motivational Intensity Theory. The experiment asked participants to solve cognitive tasks under relevant performance circumstances, indexing effort through assessment of systolic blood pressure (SBP) responses. Results were supportive. They help to account for contradictory findings in the NFC literature and add substantively to the broader literature concerned with determinants and cardiovascular correlates of effort.
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Wydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Psychologii
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Szumowska, Ewa - 107756
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Szwed, Paulina - 122727
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Kossowska, Małgorzata - 129191
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Wright, Rex
dc.date.accessioned
2018-03-05T09:25:52Z
dc.date.available
2018-03-05T09:25:52Z
dc.date.issuedpl
2017
dc.description.numberpl
4
dc.description.physicalpl
369-382
dc.description.volumepl
3
dc.identifier.doipl
10.1037/mot0000053
dc.identifier.eissnpl
2333-8121
dc.identifier.issnpl
2333-8113
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https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/51094
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eng
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Multifaceted effects of need for cognitive closure on effort : a cardiovascular response study
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