Title: Mental Rigidity - Exploring your mind
Headings: Mental Rigidity
Mental Rigidity
Mental rigidity
The need for cognitive closure
Are you close-minded?

Content: This need motivates the person to find a quick answer. The greater need for closure, the more energy they’ll put into accepting that answer and defending it. Even so, that doesn’t mean the answer is correct, true, genuine, or even healthy. But what does this have to do with close-minded people? It’s simple. Imagine that one day, ash starts to fall from the sky. Something inexplicable at first, as there’s no volcano nearby, nor is there anything else that should produce ash on such a large scale. A close-minded person, or someone with a high need for cognitive closure, would say that it isn’t ash, it’s snow. And that’s that. They wouldn’t give it another thought.