Title: Rigidity (psychology) - Wikipedia
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Rigidity (psychology)
Contents
Background
Mental set
Behavioral sets
Origins and anthropology
Causes
Stages
Traits
Accompanying externalizing behaviors
Accompanying internalizing behaviors
Manifestations of rigidity
Associated conditions
Cognitive closure
Autism spectrum disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Scrupulosity
Effects
Ethnocentrism
Cultural and religious use
Strategies for overcoming rigidity
Consequences of unfulfillment
References
See also

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Rigidity (psychology)
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In psychology, rigidity or mental rigidity refers to an obstinate inability to yield or a refusal to appreciate another person's viewpoint or emotions characterized by a lack of empathy. It can also refer to the tendency to perseverate, which is the inability to change habits and the inability to modify concepts and attitudes once developed. A specific example of rigidity is functional fixedness, which is a difficulty conceiving new uses for familiar objects. Contents
1 Background
2 Mental set
3 Behavioral sets
4 Origins and anthropology
5 Causes
6 Stages
7 Traits
7.1 Accompanying externalizing behaviors
7.2 Accompanying internalizing behaviors
7.3 Manifestations of rigidity
8 Associated conditions
8.1 Cognitive closure
8.2 Autism spectrum disorder
8.3 Obsessive-compulsive disorder
8.4 Scrupulosity
9 Effects
9.1 Ethnocentrism
10 Cultural and religious use
11 Strategies for overcoming rigidity
11.1 Consequences of unfulfillment
12 References
13 See also
Background
Rigidity is an ancient part of our human cognition. Systematic research on rigidity can be found tracing back to Gestalt psychologists, going as far back as the late 19th to early 20th century with Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka in Germany. With more than 100 years of research on the matter there is some established and clear data. Nonetheless, there is still much controversy surrounding several of the fundamental aspects of rigidity. In the early stages of approaching the idea of rigidity, it is treated as "a unidimensional continuum ranging from rigid at one end to flexible at the other". This idea dates back to the 1800s and was later articulated by Charles Spearman who described it as mental inertia. Prior to 1960 many definitions for the term rigidity were afloat.