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Need for Closure and the Social Response to Terrorism

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Pages 279-290 | Published online: 20 Nov 2010

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Adam Feltz & Edward T. Cokely. (2014) The terror of ‘terrorists’: an investigation in experimental applied ethics. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression 6:3, pages 195-211.
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Federico Contu, Molly Ellenberg, Arie W. Kruglanski, Giuseppe Pantaleo & Antonio Pierro. (2023) Need for cognitive closure and desire for cultural tightness mediate the effect of concern about ecological threats on the need for strong leadership. Current Psychology 43:13, pages 11458-11469.
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Mark J. Brandt, Shree Vallabha & Felicity M. Turner-Zwinkels. (2023) The Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic Made People Feel Threatened, but Had a Limited Impact on Political Attitudes in the United States. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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Milan Obaidi, Gulnaz Anjum, Kinga Bierwiaczonek, John F. Dovidio, Simon Ozer & Jonas R. Kunst. (2023) Cultural threat perceptions predict violent extremism via need for cognitive closure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120:20.
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Cassandra A. Shivers-Williams & Daphne S. LaDue. (2022) Exploring southeast US mobile and manufactured home residents’ anchoring decisions. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 82, pages 103383.
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Valeria De Cristofaro, Valerio Pellegrini, Stefano Livi & Martijn van Zomeren. (2022) Explaining immigrant threat perceptions and pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through issue‐specific moral conviction and general need for closure: The case of the US–Mexico border wall. European Journal of Social Psychology 52:5-6, pages 797-809.
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Luis Carlos Jaume, Christian Schetsche, Marcelo Agustín Roca & Paula Quattrocchi. (2022) Factor Structure and Internal Consistency on a Reduced Version of the Revised Test of Need for Cognitive Closure. Frontiers in Psychology 12.
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Almog Simchon, Chaya Turkin, Tal Svoray, Itai Kloog, Michael Dorman & Michael Gilead. (2021) Beyond doubt in a dangerous world: The effect of existential threats on the certitude of societal discourse. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 97, pages 104221.
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Wesley Starnes, Catalina Kopetz & Mark Johnson. (2021) For better and for worse: The role of negative affect in decisions to drink and drive. Motivation and Emotion 45:3, pages 354-367.
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Maria Isabela Caro Simões dos Reis & Ronaldo Pilati. (2020) Need for Closure: Measure Adaptation to Brazil and Relation with Moral Foundations and ProsocialityNeed for Closure: Adaptação da medida ao Brasil e relação com Fundamentos Morais e ProsocialidadeNeed for Closure: Adaptación de la medida en Brasil y relación con Fundamentos Morales y Prosocialidad. Trends in Psychology 29:1, pages 86-103.
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Petra Pelletier & Ewa Drozda-Senkowska. (2019) Meaning-making and rumour-mongering in the shadow of terrorism: The case of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Journal of Social and Political Psychology 7:2, pages 790-809.
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Valeria De Cristofaro, Valerio Pellegrini, Conrad Baldner, Martijn van Zomeren, Stefano Livi & Antonio Pierro. (2019) Need for closure effect on collective action intentions and behavior toward immigrants in Italy: The mediation of binding foundations and political conservatism. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 49:10, pages 611-622.
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Michelle Dugas, Noa Schori-Eyal, Arie W. Kruglanski, Yechiel Klar, Kate Touchton-Leonard, Andrew McNeill, Michele J. Gelfand & Sonia Roccas. (2017) Group-centric attitudes mediate the relationship between need for closure and intergroup hostility. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 21:8, pages 1155-1171.
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Pedro Cardenas, Boguslaw Obara, Georgios Theodoropoulos & Ibad Kureshi. (2018) Defining an Alert Mechanism for Detecting likely threats to National Security. Defining an Alert Mechanism for Detecting likely threats to National Security.
Michelle Dugas & Arie W Kruglanski. (2018) Shared reality as collective closure. Current Opinion in Psychology 23, pages 72-76.
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Edward Orehek & Arie W. Kruglanski. (2018) Personal failure makes society seem fonder: An inquiry into the roots of social interdependence. PLOS ONE 13:8, pages e0201361.
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Matteo VerganiMatteo Vergani. 2018. How Is Terrorism Changing Us?. How Is Terrorism Changing Us? 21 43 .
Daniel Randles, Steven J. Heine, Michael Poulin & Roxane Cohen Silver. (2017) Experienced Adversity in Life Is Associated With Polarized and Affirmed Political Attitudes. Social Psychological and Personality Science 8:6, pages 652-659.
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Garriy Shteynberg, Michele Gelfand, Lynn Imai, David M. Mayer & Chris Bell. (2017) Prosocial thinkers and the social transmission of justice. European Journal of Social Psychology 47:4, pages 429-442.
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Ambra Brizi, Lucia Mannetti & Arie W. Kruglanski. (2015) The closing of open minds: Need for closure moderates the impact of uncertainty salience on outgroup discrimination. British Journal of Social Psychology 55:2, pages 244-262.
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Arne Roets, Arie W. Kruglanski, Malgorzata Kossowska, Antonio Pierro & Ying-yi Hong. 2015. 221 283 .
Mauro Giacomantonio & Antonio Pierro. (2014) Individual Differences Underlying Punishment Motivation. Social Psychology 45:6, pages 449-457.
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Edward Orehek & Anna Vazeou-Nieuwenhuis. (2014) Understanding the Terrorist Threat. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1:1, pages 248-255.
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Michael W. Morris, Krishna Savani, Shira Mor & Jaee Cho. (2014) When in Rome: Intercultural learning and implications for training. Research in Organizational Behavior 34, pages 189-215.
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Michael A. Hogg, Arie Kruglanski & Kees van den Bos. (2013) Uncertainty and the Roots of Extremism. Journal of Social Issues 69:3, pages 407-418.
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Gary LaFree & Nancy A. Morris. (2012) Does Legitimacy Matter?. Crime & Delinquency 58:5, pages 689-719.
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Michael W. Morris, Aurelia Mok & Shira Mor. (2011) Cultural Identity Threat: The Role of Cultural Identifications in Moderating Closure Responses to Foreign Cultural Inflow. Journal of Social Issues 67:4, pages 760-773.
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Arie W. Kruglanski & Edward Orehek. 2011. Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty. Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty 1 18 .

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