A conceptual integration and review are presented of three separate research programmes informed by the theory of lay epistemics (Kruglanski, 1989). They respectively address the owhyo, ohowo, and owhoo questions about human knowledge formation. The owhyo question is treated in work on the need for cognitive closure that propels epistemic behaviour and affects individual, interpersonal, and group phenomena. The ohowo question is addressed in work on the unimodel (Kruglanski, Pierro, Mannetti, Erb, Chun, 2007) depicting the process of drawing conclusions from the oinformation giveno. The owhoo question is addressed in work on oepistemic authorityo highlighting the centrality of source effects (including oneself as a source) in human epistemic behaviour. These separate research paradigms explore facets of epistemic behaviour that jointly produce human knowledge, of essential significance to people's' individual and social functioning.

Three decades of lay epistemics: The why, how, and who of knowledge formation / Arie W., Kruglanski; Mark, Dechesne; Edward, Orehek; Pierro, Antonio. - In: EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 1046-3283. - STAMPA. - 20:1(2009), pp. 146-191. [10.1080/10463280902860037]

Three decades of lay epistemics: The why, how, and who of knowledge formation

PIERRO, Antonio
2009

Abstract

A conceptual integration and review are presented of three separate research programmes informed by the theory of lay epistemics (Kruglanski, 1989). They respectively address the owhyo, ohowo, and owhoo questions about human knowledge formation. The owhyo question is treated in work on the need for cognitive closure that propels epistemic behaviour and affects individual, interpersonal, and group phenomena. The ohowo question is addressed in work on the unimodel (Kruglanski, Pierro, Mannetti, Erb, Chun, 2007) depicting the process of drawing conclusions from the oinformation giveno. The owhoo question is addressed in work on oepistemic authorityo highlighting the centrality of source effects (including oneself as a source) in human epistemic behaviour. These separate research paradigms explore facets of epistemic behaviour that jointly produce human knowledge, of essential significance to people's' individual and social functioning.
2009
epistemic authority; need for closure; rule following; seizing; unimodel
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Three decades of lay epistemics: The why, how, and who of knowledge formation / Arie W., Kruglanski; Mark, Dechesne; Edward, Orehek; Pierro, Antonio. - In: EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 1046-3283. - STAMPA. - 20:1(2009), pp. 146-191. [10.1080/10463280902860037]
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