CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
An experimental investigation of need for cognition — The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Key
- cohen-stotland-wolfe-1955
- Authors
- Cohen, Arthur R.; Stotland, Ezra; Wolfe, Donald M.
- Issued
- 1955
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 291-294
- DOI
- 10.1037/h0042761
Raw CSL JSON
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"issue": "2",
"title": "An experimental investigation of need for cognition",
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{
"given": "Arthur R.",
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},
{
"given": "Ezra",
"family": "Stotland"
},
{
"given": "Donald M.",
"family": "Wolfe"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
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1955
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},
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"publisher": "American Psychological Association",
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}
Claims
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Cohen, Stotland, and Wolfe coined need for cognition as the individual's need to organize his experience meaningfully and to structure relevant situations in meaningful, integrated ways.
"a need to structure relevant situations in meaningful, integrated ways"
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