Thinking Inconsistently
| العنوان: | Thinking Inconsistently |
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| المؤلفون: | Marija Petrović, Iris Žeželj |
| المصدر: | European Journal of Psychological Assessment |
| بيانات النشر: | Hogrefe Publishing Group, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Need for cognition, 05 social sciences, Metacognition, 050109 social psychology, Test validity, conspiratorial beliefs, 16. Peace & justice, 050105 experimental psychology, Doublethink, doublethink, thinking styles, inconsistent beliefs, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Psychology, Applied Psychology, Cognitive style, Cognitive psychology |
| الوصف: | Abstract. People tend to simultaneously accept mutually exclusive beliefs. If they are generally prone to tolerate inconsistencies, irrespective of their content, we say they are prone to doublethink. We developed a measure to capture individual differences in this tendency and demonstrated its construct and predictive validity across two studies. In Study 1, participants ( N = 240) filled in the doublethink scale, the rational/intuitive inventory, and three measures of conspiratorial beliefs (conspiracy mentality, belief in specific and contradictory conspiracies). Doublethink was meaningfully related to all measured variables and was predictive of all conspiratorial beliefs over and above rational/intuitive thinking styles. In Study 2 ( N = 149), we included the need for cognition and preference for consistency in the predictor set alongside doublethink, while the criterion set remained the same. Once again, doublethink related in an expected way to other measured variables and was predictive of belief in conspiracy theories after accounting for the effects of need for cognition and preference for consistency. We discuss the properties of the scale and how it relates to other consistency measures, and offer two ways to conceptualize doublethink: as a lack of metacognitive ability to spot inconsistencies or as a thinking style that easily accommodates inconsistent beliefs. |
| تدمد: | 2151-2426 1015-5759 |
| DOI: | 10.1027/1015-5759/a000645 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::caa317f0405bbc26c59d28ec43838e52 https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000645 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....caa317f0405bbc26c59d28ec43838e52 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 21512426 10155759 |
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| DOI: | 10.1027/1015-5759/a000645 |