The Efficient Assessment of Need for Cognition

Cacioppo, John T.; Petty, Richard E.; Kao, Chuan Feng

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“…Need for cognition We assessed the trait-like variable of need for cognition using a seven-item version of the original Need for Cognition Scale (Cacioppo et al 1984) (Cronbach's α=.77), with a seven-point Likert response ("strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"). Higher scores indicate a greater need for cognition, reflecting the extent to which people prefer effortful cognitive activities (total score=7-49).…”

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“…Beyond current symptoms, stable traitlike factors, such as one's "need for cognition," may also result in biased predictions of a future emotional state following genetic testing. "Need for cognition" refers to an individual's tendency to engage in effortful cognitive endeavors (Cacioppo et al 1984). Those with a high need for cognition often have better decision outcomes as a result of these thought processes (Dunphy et al 2010).…”

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Women’s concerns about the emotional impact of awareness of heritable breast cancer risk and its implications for their children

O’Neill¹,

Mays²,

Patenaude

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J Community Genet

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Women tested for mutations in BRCA1/2 genes who have minor-aged children confront difficult decisions about if, when, and how to share information about hereditary cancer risk with their children. These choices are often seemingly influenced by how mothers anticipate the emotional burdens they and their children will experience in response to test results. Here, we investigate the association between maternal cognitions, pretest psychological well-being, and coping style with mothers' anticipated emotional reactions to learning that they are BRCA1/2 mutation carriers (N=205). In a linear regression model adjusted for maternal demographics, stronger tendencies to ruminate about information (B=.14, p=.03), greater psychological strain (B=.14, p<.001), and poorer appraisals of one's ability to cope with genetic test results conveying increased breast cancer risk information (B=−.25, p<.001) were significantly associated with anticipating more negative affect surrounding BRCA1/2 mutation identification in mothers. Our data contribute to the growing awareness of special concerns that mothers have about knowing their BRCA1/2 mutation status and highlight the need for more tailored patient education and counseling resources to improve outcomes among women at risk and their children.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Women’s concerns about the emotional impact of awareness of heritable breast cancer risk and its implications for their children

O’Neill¹,

Mays²,

Patenaude

et al. 2014

J Community Genet

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“…Research on AC often took into consideration a related but distinct construct -need for cognition (NFC; Cacioppo, Petty, & Kao, 1984). A person with high NFC are motivated to engage in various effortful and complex cognitive contemplations such as careful scrutiny of incoming information, avoidance of heuristics, and complex explanations of human behaviors.…”

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“…Participants indicated how well each of the 18 items (e.g., "I only think as hard as I have to") on the Need for Cognition Scale (Cacioppo et al, 1984) described themselves on a 5-point scale ("1" extremely unlike me to "5" extremely like me). Nine of the items were negatively keyed and hence reversely scored.…”

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Attributionally more complex people show less punitiveness and racism

Tam

Leung

2008

Journal of Research in Personality

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This is the Pre-Published Version Attributional Complexity, Punitiveness, and Racism 2 Abstract Based on past findings that attributionally more complex people make less fundamental attribution error, it was hypothesized that they would show less punitiveness and racism. In a study of 102 undergraduates, this hypothesis received robust support. The effect of attributional complexity was significant in 2 different punitiveness measures, a rehabilitation support measure, and 2 different racism measures. Also, this effect still held when demographic variables, crime victimization history, and need for cognition were statistically controlled. Moreover, attributional complexity mediated the effect of need for cognition and gender on punitiveness and racism.Theoretical implications are discussed.

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“…Accordingly, individuals with high empathizing scores (here measured by the Empathizing Quotient (EQ), (Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004) may be more likely to adapt communicative message, since they can better predict the response of others, while those with high systemizing abilities (SQ-R) may take a more logical problem-solving approach to communicative efforts due to their increased tendency to search for rules and definitive answers. Individuals high in Need for Cognition (NCS) are flexible in choosing learning strategies, are highly motivated, and have good control over attentional resources, while those low in need for cognition have the tendency to rely on others to find meaning in events and stimuli (Cacioppo, Petty, & Kao, 1984;Evans, Kirby, & Fabrigar, 2003).Similarly, individuals high in Need for Cognition (Cacioppo, Petty, Feinstein, Blain, & Jarvis, 1996) are less influenced by surface information (Ruiter, Verplanken, De Kremer, & Kok, 2004) and could be less likely to adapt their behavior to the observable characteristics of a communicative partner.…”

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Recipient design in tacit communication

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a b s t r a c tThe ability to design tailored messages for specific listeners is an important aspect of human communication. The present study investigates whether a mere belief about an addressee's identity influences the generation and production of a communicative message in a novel, non-verbal communication task. Participants were made to believe they were playing a game with a child or an adult partner, while a confederate acted as both child and adult partners with matched performance and response times. The participants' belief influenced their behavior, spending longer when interacting with the presumed child addressee, but only during communicative portions of the game, i.e. using time as a tool to place emphasis on target information. This communicative adaptation attenuated with experience, and it was related to personality traits, namely Empathy and Need for Cognition measures. Overall, these findings indicate that novel nonverbal communicative interactions are selected according to a socio-centric perspective, and they are strongly influenced by participants' traits.

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The Efficient Assessment of Need for Cognition

Abstract: A short form for assessing individual differences in need for cognition is described.

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Women’s concerns about the emotional impact of awareness of heritable breast cancer risk and its implications for their children

Women’s concerns about the emotional impact of awareness of heritable breast cancer risk and its implications for their children

Attributionally more complex people show less punitiveness and racism

Recipient design in tacit communication

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