CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
The need for cognition — Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Key
- cacioppo-petty-1982
- Authors
- Cacioppo, John T.; Petty, Richard E.
- Issued
- 1982
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 116-131
Raw CSL JSON
{
"DOI": "10.1037/0022-3514.42.1.116",
"ISSN": "0022-3514",
"page": "116-131",
"type": "article-journal",
"issue": "1",
"title": "The need for cognition",
"author": [
{
"given": "John T.",
"family": "Cacioppo"
},
{
"given": "Richard E.",
"family": "Petty"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
1982
]
]
},
"volume": "42",
"publisher": "American Psychological Association",
"container-title": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
}
Claims
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Cacioppo and Petty defined need for cognition as the tendency for an individual to engage in and enjoy thinking, and introduced an explicit self-report measurement scale to assess it.
"the tendency for an individual to engage in and enjoy thinking"
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