The Impact of Need for Cognition on Thinking About Free Speech Issues
Margaret E. Thompson · Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly · 1995
This study examines the way that need for cognition (NFC) affects thinking about free speech issues. Past research has shown a large disparity between general support for abstract principles of free speech and willingness to apply those principles in specific situations. The results of this study show a smaller tolerance disparity for high NFC respondents; they are more likely to apply free speech principles in forming opinions in specific issue situations.