Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski (born in 1939) is a social psychologist best known for his work on Cognitive Closure. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland.
Career
Arie Kruglanski received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1968. He has contributed extensively to the theory of Cognitive Closure,[1] and co-developed the Need for Closure Scale.[2] Theories of closure have found application in numerous fields such as consumer behavior[3] and political research.[4] Kruglanski frequently collaborated with E. Tory Higgins, particularly on regulatory mode theory. Kruglanski sits on the editorial board of Psychological Review,[5] and serves as a co-principal investigator at the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.
See also
Awards
- 2007 - Society for Experimental Social Psychology: Distinguished Scientist Award[6]
- 1998 - Society for Personality and Social Psychology: Donald T. Campbell Award[7]
Recent and/or notable publications
Books
- Victoroff, J., & Kruglanski, A. W. (Eds.) (2009). Psychology of terrorism. New York: Psychology Press.
- Kruglanski, A. W. (2004). The psychology of closed mindedness. New York: Psychology Press.
- Kruglanski, A. W., & Higgins, E .T. (Eds.). (2003). Social psychology: A general reader. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
- Higgins, E. T., & Kruglanski, A. W. (Eds.). (2000). Motivational science: Social and personality perspectives. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
- Higgins, E. T., & Kruglanski, A. W. (Eds.). (1996). Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles. New York: Guilford Press.
- Kruglanski, A. W. (1989). Lay epistemics and human knowledge: Cognitive and motivational bases. New York: Springer
Journal Articles
- Kruglanski, A. W., Pierro, A., & Sheveland, A. (2011). How many roads lead to Rome? Equifinality set-size and commitment to goals and means. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 344-352.
- Kruglanski, A. W., & Gigerenzer, G. (2011). Intuitive and deliberative judgments are based on common principles. Psychological Review, 118, 97-109.
- Kruglanski, A.W., & Fishman, S. (2009). The psychology of terrorism: Syndrome versus tool perspectives. Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, 18, 193-215.
- Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A W., & Sulloway, F. J. (2003). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 339-375.
- Kruglanski, A. W., Shah, J. Y., Fishbach, A., Friedman, R., Chun, W. Y., & Sleeth-Keppler, D. (2002). A theory of goal-systems. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol 34, pp. 331–378. New York: Academic Press.
- Kruglanski, A. W., Thompson, E. P., Higgins, E. T., Atash, M. N., Pierro, A., Shah, J. Y., & Spiegel, S. (2000). To do the right thing! or to just do it!: Locomotion and assessment as distinct self-regulatory imperatives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 793-815.
- Webster, Donna M.; Arie W. Kruglanski (1997). Cognitive and Social Consequences of the Need for Cognitive Closure. European Review of Social Psychology 18: 133–173.
- Kruglanski, A. W., & Webster, D. M. (1996). Motivated closing of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing". Psychological Review, 103, 263-283.
- Webster, D. M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (1994). Individual differences in need for cognitive closure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 1049-1062.
References
- ^ "Need for closure". Psychlopedia.
- ^ "Why We Need Answers". The New Yorker. April 30, 2013.
- ^ "The Psychology of Time Pressured Sales". Psychology Today. November 29, 2010.
- ^ "Conservatism makes you happy". Salon. July 16, 2012.
- ^ http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/rev/index.aspx
- ^ http://www.sesp.org/disting.htm
- ^ http://www.spsp.org/?page=Campbell