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| Alain Van HielSummaryAffiliation: Ghent University Country: Belgium Publications
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The relationship between social-cultural attitudes and behavioral measures of cognitive style: a meta-analytic integration of studiesAlain Van Hiel
Ghent University, Belgium
J Pers 78:1765-99. 2010..The need to study cognitive ability as a basis of ideological attitudes is also discussed...
Ambitions fulfilled? The effects of intrinsic and extrinsic goal attainment on older adults' ego-integrity and death attitudesAlain Van Hiel
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
Int J Aging Hum Dev 68:27-51. 2009..It is argued that the attainment of intrinsic goals is related to better psychological health, because intrinsic goals are more conducive to the satisfaction of basic psychological needs...- To have or to be? A comparison of materialism-based theories and self-determination theory as explanatory frameworks of prejudiceAlain Van Hiel
Ghent University, Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, H Dunantlaan 2, Gent 9000, Belgium
J Pers 78:1037-70. 2010..Broader implications for SDT are critically assessed... - The search for complex problem-solving strategies in the presence of stressorsAlain Van Hiel
Ghent University, Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent, Belgium
Hum Factors 49:1072-82. 2007..The present research tests the effects of time pressure and noise on open-mindedness to discover new problem-solving strategies... - Stagnation and generativity: structure, validity, and differential relationships with adaptive and maladaptive personalityAlain Van Hiel
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology Ghent University, Belgium
J Pers 74:543-73. 2006..Finally, the interaction between stagnation and generativity in producing specific outcomes is discussed... - The impact of need for closure on conservative beliefs and racism: differential mediation by authoritarian submission and authoritarian dominanceAlain Van Hiel
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:824-37. 2004..In addition, analyses show that the effects of Need for Simple Structure on conservative beliefs and racism are fully mediated by RWA but only partly by SDO. These results suggest a differential genesis of RWA and SDO... - The need for closure and the spontaneous use of complex and simple cognitive structuresAlain Van Hiel
Department of Developmental and Personality Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
J Soc Psychol 143:559-68. 2003..The discussion is focused on the effects of need for closure in tasks calling for adaptive and spontaneous flexibility... - Age differences in conservatism: evidence on the mediating effects of personality and cognitive styleIlse Cornelis
Ghent University, Belgium
J Pers 77:51-87. 2009..The consistency of these findings in two countries with a very dissimilar sociopolitical history attests to the importance of the developmental perspective for the study of the relationship between age and conservatism... - Determinants of task performance and invested effort: a need for closure by relative cognitive capacity interaction analysisArne Roets
Ghent University, Belgium
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:779-92. 2008..The two main findings are discussed and the authors go further into the divergences between dispositional and manipulated NFC... - Opening closed minds: the combined effects of intergroup contact and need for closure on prejudiceKristof Dhont
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 37:514-28. 2011..The role of motivated cognition in the relation between intergroup contact and prejudice is discussed... - The role of need for closure in essentialist entitativity beliefs and prejudice: an epistemic needs approach to racial categorizationArne Roets
Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
Br J Soc Psychol 50:52-73. 2011..It is argued that EE beliefs about racial groups are an expression of motivated social cognition, serving people's seizing needs for quick and easy social judgment... 
A step into the anarchist's mind: examining political attitudes and ideology through event-related brain potentialsKristof Dhont
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B 9000, Ghent, Belgium
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:296-303. 2012..The discussion elaborates on the meaning of attitude extremity for moderates and extremists...- Longitudinal intergroup contact effects on prejudice using self- and observer-reportsKristof Dhont
Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
Br J Soc Psychol 51:221-38. 2012..Methodological implications of the findings are discussed... - Maladaptive personality traits and psychopathology in childhood and adolescence: the moderating effect of parentingBarbara De Clercq
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, H Dunantlaan 2, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
J Pers 76:357-83. 2008..The discussion focuses on the contribution of these findings to a better understanding of the trait-psychopathology relationship at young age... - Separating ability from need: clarifying the dimensional structure of the Need for Closure ScaleArne Roets
Ghent University
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:266-80. 2007..In the Discussion, it is argued that the specific position of Decisiveness is due to its particular operationalization, not to its theoretical status... - Openness to experience and boundaries in the mind: relationships with cultural and economic conservative beliefsAlain Van Hiel
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
J Pers 72:659-86. 2004.... - Social identification among political party voters and members: an empirical test of optimal distinctiveness theoryAlain Van Hiel
Department of Developmental and Personality Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
J Soc Psychol 142:202-9. 2002..The authors found no significant differences between political parties on the collective self-esteem questionnaire administered to the sample of political party members... - When threat to society becomes a threat to oneself: implications for right-wing attitudes and ethnic prejudiceEmma Onraet
Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Int J Psychol 48:25-34. 2013.... - Duration estimation and the phonological loop: articulatory suppression and irrelevant soundsVicky Franssen
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Psychol Res 70:304-16. 2006..These findings are taken to show that time estimation is mediated by phonological working memory and the involvement of an active articulatory rehearsal process... - To whom does voice in groups matter? Effects of voice on affect and procedural fairness judgments as a function of social dominance orientationDavid De Cremer
Department of Psychology, Center of Justice and Social Decision Making, Tilburg University, P O Box 90153, 5000LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
J Soc Psychol 148:61-76. 2008..The authors conclude by discussing alternative explanations based on other fairness theories...