Individual Differences in Tolerance for Contradiction

• Main Author: CHAN, David
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: situational judgement; tolerance for contradiction; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/205
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article introduces and provides validity evidence for the new individual difference construct of tolerance for contradiction, defined as a mode of thinking that accepts and even thrives on apparent bivalent logical contradictions. In Study 1, which used a sample of 198 undergraduates, convergen...