[HTML][HTML] At the roots of Allport's “prejudice-prone personality”: The impact of need for cognitive closure on prejudice towards different outgroups and the mediating role …

F Albarello, F Contu, C Baldner, M Vecchione… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In line with the seminal ideas on the “prejudice-prone personality” provided by Allport (1954)
in the book The Nature of Prejudice, various studies have highlighted the association …

The trials of women leaders in the workforce: How a need for cognitive closure can influence acceptance of harmful gender stereotypes

C Baldner, A Pierro - Sex Roles, 2019 - Springer
Women leaders in the workforce are adversely affected by two sets of stereotypes: women
are warm and communal but leaders are assertive and competent. This mismatch of …

Is it all about retribution? The flexibility of punishment goals

M Twardawski, KTY Tang, BE Hilbig - Social Justice Research, 2020 - Springer
Current literature suggests that laypeople's punishment is primarily driven by retributive
reasons (ie, to give offender their just deserts) rather than utilitarian purposes such as …

Motivated prejudice: The effect of need for closure on anti-immigrant attitudes in the United States and Italy and the mediating role of binding moral foundations

C Baldner, A Pierro - International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2019 - Elsevier
Why do people have anti-immigrant attitudes? We proposed that individuals' need for
cognitive closure—an epistemic motivation associated with an aversion to change in …

Remorse, perceived offender immorality, and lay sentencing preferences

JR Silver, CM Berryessa - Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2023 - Springer
Objective We examine whether affective, verbal, and restitutive displays of remorse are
associated with perceived offender immorality, as well as whether displays of remorse exert …

On the subjective value of life

O Arandjelović - Philosophies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Claims (or the implicit assumption) of the inherent worth of life are pervasive and remain
virtually unchallenged. I have already argued that these outright moral dictates are thinly …

The epistemic bases of prejudice: The role of need for cognitive closure

C Baldner, LC Jaume, A Pierro, AW Kruglanski - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Social psychologists have long studied the factors that underlie prejudice, including rigid
ways of viewing the world and a fear of outside influence. More recent research has focused …

Need for closure effect on collective action intentions and behavior toward immigrants in Italy: The mediation of binding foundations and political conservatism

V De Cristofaro, V Pellegrini, C Baldner… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Why are people (de) motivated to mobilize in favor of immigrants? Addressing this question,
we investigated the role of individuals' epistemic motivation (ie, need for closure) in …

Nostalgia increases punitiveness by intensifying moral concern

JD Lasaleta, T Wildschut, C Sedikides - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
We addressed the relation between nostalgia and moral judgment or behavior. We
hypothesized that nostalgia, a social emotion, increases moral concern (H1), nostalgia …

The moral foundations of desired cultural tightness

D Di Santo, MJ Gelfand, C Baldner, A Pierro - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
People vary on their desire for strict norms, and the moral underpinnings of these differences
have yet to be explored. The current research examined whether and how moral beliefs held …