Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Social Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
J Soc Psychol. 2024 Jan 2;164(1):76-91. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2021.1988498. Epub 2021 Nov 12.
Previous research on the need for cognitive closure (NFC), or the desire for epistemic certainty, has consistently found that it is associated with negative attitudes toward immigrants, among other outgroups, potentially because they represent agents of change and/or due to a general preference for perceived stability and certainty associated with right-wing politics. However, as individuals with this need theoretically prefer stable and certain knowledge, independent of the specific content, it is also possible that these individuals could have positive attitudes toward immigrants when they are provided with a positive source of information to which they can metaphorically "close" upon. In two studies ( = 397), controlling for participants' political orientation, we found that individuals with an NFC were more likely to accept immigrants when their positive effect was endorsed by an epistemic authority (Study 1), but only when they trusted this source (Study 2).
先前关于认知封闭（NFC）需求的研究，即对知识确定性的渴望，一直发现它与对移民等其他群体的消极态度有关，其潜在原因可能是他们代表着变革的推动者，或者是因为人们普遍偏爱与右翼政治相关的感知稳定性和确定性。然而，由于具有这种需求的个体理论上更倾向于稳定和确定的知识，而不考虑具体内容，因此当为他们提供一个可以隐喻地“封闭”的积极信息来源时，这些个体也可能对移民持积极态度。在两项研究中（n=397），我们控制了参与者的政治倾向，发现当认知权威认可移民的积极影响时（研究 1），具有 NFC 的个体更有可能接受移民，但只有当他们信任这个来源时（研究 2）才会这样。
