Need for cognitive closure may impede the effectiveness of epistemic belief instruction

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue , 2016, Pages 406-413

  Rosman, Tom ^a   Mayer, Anne Kathrin ^a   Peter, Johannes ^a   Krampen, Günter ^a,b  

^a ZPID Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolutism; Epistemic beliefs; Instruction; Multiplicism; Need for cognitive closure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973562599     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.05.017     Document Type: Article

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