Closure (psychology)

The need for cognition ( NFC ), in psychology, is a personality variable reflecting the extent to which individuals are inclined towards effortful cognitive activities.[1][2]

Need for cognition has been variously defined as "a need to structure relevant situations in meaningful, integrated ways" and "a need to understand and make reasonable the exp... See more

Such closed-mindedness, or an unwillingness to consider new ideas, originates in the brain's natural dislike for ambiguity, which it often seeks to blindly eliminate rather than explore. Ambiguity can for some spark a curiosity but others who prefer immediate certainty block the investigative process altogether. Most people urgently demand an answe

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Here’s how the close-down helps. First, it limits the time we spend on a task. If we know we’re only going to do a task for fifteen minutes, we can start it more easily. We’re only dipping a toe into the pool of the task. Then, using the close-down, we acknowledge (and celebrate) that we were able to get into it at all, set up an easy way to get ba

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