Title: Rigidity (psychology) - Wikipedia
Headings: Rigidity (psychology)
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

Content: Stages
Rigidity has three different main "stages" of severity, although it never has to move to further stages. The first stage is a strict perception that causes one to persist in their ways and be close-minded to other things. The second involves a motive to defend the ego. The third stage is that it is a part of one's personality and you can see it in their perception, cognition, and social interactions. Traits
We often see traits that occur alongside rigidity. Accompanying externalizing behaviors
They could be external behaviors, such as the following: Insistently repetitious behavior
Difficulty with unmet expectations
Perfectionism
Compulsions (as in OCD)
Perseveration
Accompanying internalizing behaviors
Internalizing behaviors also are shown: Perfectionism
Obsessions (as in OCD)
Manifestations of rigidity
Associated conditions
Cognitive closure
Mental rigidity often features a high need for cognitive closure, meaning that they assign explanations prematurely to things with a determination that this is truth, finding that resolution of the dissonance as reassuring as finding the truth. Then, there is little reason to correct their unconscious misattributions if it would bring uncertainty back. Autism spectrum disorder
Cognitive rigidity is one feature of autism and its spectrum (ASD), but is even included in what's called the Broader Autism Phenotype, where a collection of autistic traits still fail to reach the level of ASD.