This need for cognitive closure, moreover, could be also reinforced by the existential motive of fear of death, considering that the existential variable of mortality salience exhibited a positive correlation with conservatism (365). If death is more salient on the minds of conservatives, then in processing information they are bound by the mechanism of cognitive closure because there is no room for loosely defined beliefs let alone confusion when faced with the looming threat of death. ... Moreover, they prefer to rely on such dogmatic thinking because they are driven by the fear of death and...

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