Abstract: The Need for Cognition Scale (NCS) is a self-report scale measuring individual differences in the tendency to engage in and enjoy thinking. The shortened version with 18 items (NCS-18; Cacioppo et al., 1984) has widely been ...
Who Can Catch a Liar? Need for Cognition and Teacher Students’ Ability to Discriminate Truth and DeceptionIn two studies the correlation between teacher students’ Need for Cognition and the ability to detect deception was investigated. According to the ...
The joy of thinking as the key to success? The importance of Need for Cognition for subjective experience and achievement in academic studiesAbstract.Need for Cognition (NFC) describes interindividual differences in the ...
Cognitive training with children: The importance of Need for CognitionAbstract. The present study investigates how Klauer's (inductive) reasoning training and its effect on cognitive abilities are associated with ...
Some like it hot. Results of the German language version of an instrument aimed at the assessment of the need for affect/need for emotionAbstract. Complementary to social psychological needs, such as the need for cognition, Maio and Esses (2001) describe ...
A Comparison of Traditional and Computer-Assisted Methods for the Development of a German Need for Cognition Short ScaleAbstract. The current study presents the development and validation of a Need for Cognition (NFC) short scale. In Study 1 (N = 282), ...
Need for cognition (NFC) refers to “the (enduring) tendency for an individual to engage in and enjoy effortful analytic activity” (Cacioppo & Petty, 1982, p. 116). Yet, NFC has predominantly been assessed in adults. I present a 19-item German NFC scale ...
Abstract. Need for Cognition (NFC) signifies “the tendency for an individual to engage in and enjoy thinking” (Cacioppo & Petty, 1982, p. 116). Up to now, no scale of sufficient psychometric quality existed to assess NFC in children. Using ...
Abstract. Need for Cognition (NFC) is increasingly investigated in educational research. In contrast to other noncognitive constructs in this area, such as academic self-concept and interest, NFC has consistently been conceptualized as ...
Abstract. A growing body of studies has emphasized the need to consider method effects due to positively and negatively worded items for a better understanding of the factorial structure of psychological constructs. In particular, several ...
Abstract: Response styles (RSs) such as acquiescence represent systematic respondent behaviors in self-report questionnaires beyond the actual item content. They distort trait estimates and contribute to measurement bias in questionnaire-...
The present study tested a possible explanation for the positive relationship between the motivation to engage in cognitive endeavors (need for cognition, NFC) and indicators of affective adjustment (e.g., higher self-esteem, lower depression) that has ...
Intelligence-as-knowledge in adulthood is influenced by individual differences in intelligence-as-process (i.e., fluid intelligence) and in personality traits that determine when, where, and how people invest their intelligence over time. Here, the ...
The relationship between need for cognition (NFC) and measures of both personality and intelligence was investigated. Study 1 (N = 195) addressed recent concerns over item-polarity effects in NFC scales. With these effects removed, a reworded 34-item NFC ...
Choking under pressure refers to situations in which an individual fails to perform at the level that would be expected given their skills. Individuals with higher working memory are more susceptible to choking under pressure than individuals with lower ...
Need for Cognition (NFC) refers to individual differences in intrinsic cognitive motivation and has been proven to be an important trait factor modulating the extent of information processing in social and nonsocial contexts. Given that indirect measures ...
Abstract. Need for Cognition (NFC) as the intrinsic motivation to engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive endeavors has been a useful predictor of dispositional differences in information processing and task performance in experimental settings. In order ...
Abstract: Need for Cognition (NFC) describes the relatively stable intrinsic motivation to engage in cognitive endeavors. Recent research has revealed the importance of NFC for affective adjustment, especially in combination with self-...
Abstract. Mentally contrasting a desired future with reality is a self-regulation strategy helping people manage their life by promoting selective goal pursuit: people pursue feasible futures and disengage from unfeasible ones. We ...
Abstract. This research presents data on the Polish adaptation of the Need for Cognition Scale for Children and Adolescents (Keller et al., 2016; Preckel & Strobel, 2017). Two samples of children, mostly from Grade ...