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need for cognition

personality trait reflecting the extent to which individuals are inclined towards effortful cognitive activities
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need for cognition

Summary

need for cognition is a personality trait[1]. It draws 188 Wikipedia views per month (personality_trait category, ranking #22 of 58).[2]

Key Facts

  • need for cognition's instance of is recorded as personality trait[3].
  • need for cognition's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026bmjw[4].
  • need for cognition's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'NFC'}[5].
  • need for cognition's Quora topic ID is recorded as Need-for-Cognition[6].
  • need for cognition's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as need-for-cognition[7].
  • need for cognition's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 53371666[8].
  • need for cognition's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C53371666[9].

Why It Matters

need for cognition draws 188 Wikipedia views per month (personality_trait category, ranking #22 of 58).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). need for cognition. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/need-for-cognition
MLA “need for cognition.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/need-for-cognition.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_need-for-cognition_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{need for cognition}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/need-for-cognition}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): need for cognition — https://4ort.xyz/entity/need-for-cognition (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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