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| Title | The need for certainty as a psychological nexus for individuals and society |
| Creator | Kruglanski, Arie W.
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| Symposium | Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty
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| Series | Claremont Graduate University's Stauffer Symposium Series
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| Date | 2008-04-06 |
| Subject-LCSH | Social psychology
Terrorism
Uncertainty
Threat
Leadership
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Counterterrorism
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| Subject-Local | Extremism
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| Description | Arie Kruglansky presents his theoretical and empirical work on the need for assured knowledge and the central role it plays in human social behavior, on individual and group levels of analysis. The need for assured knowledge labeled more technically as the Need for Closure constitutes a fundamental mechanism whereby the potentially interminable epistemic sequence of hypothesis generation and testing comes to an end, affording one a sense of firm knowledge. Arousal of such a need (e.g. by uncertainty evoking events) is shown to induce a state of close mindedness in which individuals are (1) less able to empathize with others, (2) intolerant of diversity, (3) centered on their in-group, and (4) hostile to out-groups. Thus, a psychological, individual-level, mechanism of knowledge formation is shown to be relevant to major societal phenomena, and to play a potentially significant role in the shaping of politics and history in the world at large. |
| Publisher | Claremont Graduate University. School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences |
| Language | eng
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| Source | Original video: Digital video cassette; 60 minute DVM; Tape 5; recorded symposium presentation entitled, "The need for certainty as a psychological nexus for individuals and society" from the symposium entitled, "Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty" April 06, 2008 |
| Relation | Claremont Graduate University Lectures on Applied Psychology and Evaluation Science |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by the institution. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. Copyright laws. |
| Type | Moving Image
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| Running time | 00:30:27 |
| Video Format - 40 Kbps | video/mp4 |
| Video Format - 300 Kbps | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Video Format - 800 Kbps | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Video Format - LAN | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Object File Name | lap00043 |
