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	রাজনীতিতে জ্ঞান-স্পৃহা পরিমাপক স্কেল (Need for Cognition in Politics Scale)	রাজনৈতিক মতাদর্শ স্কেল
ক্ষেত্র	রাজনৈতিক মনোবিজ্ঞান	রাজনৈতিক মনোবিজ্ঞান
পরিবার	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
উদ্ভবের বছর	1982	1990
প্রবর্তক	John T. Cacioppo & Richard E. Petty	Hans-Dieter Klingemann & Norberto Bobbio
ধরন	Self-report	Self-report
মৌলিক উৎস	Cacioppo, J. T., & Petty, R. E. (1982). The need for cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 42(1), 116-131.	Fuchs, D., & Klingemann, H. D. (1990). The left-right schema. In M. Kent Jennings & Jan W. Van Deth (Eds.), Continuities in political action. Berlin: De Gruyter.
অপর নাম	NFC-P, Political Need for Cognition	Left-Right Scale, Ideology Continuum, Political Spectrum Scale
সম্পর্কিত	3	3
সারসংক্ষেপ	The Need for Cognition in Politics Scale measures individual differences in the tendency to engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive processing related to political information and decision-making. Originally conceptualized by Cacioppo and Petty (1982), the trait reflects whether individuals seek, process, and rely on substantive information when forming political attitudes. High NFC individuals prefer detailed policy discussions; low NFC individuals may rely on heuristics, endorsements, or emotional appeals.	The Political Ideology Scale measures individual self-placement on a left-right political spectrum, capturing fundamental preferences for government role, economic organization, and social values. The single-item self-placement measure (most common) asks respondents to rate themselves on a 0-10 or 0-100 continuum; multi-item versions assess distinct ideological dimensions (economic policy, social policy, nationalism). The left-right axis remains the dominant organizing principle of political competition globally, predicting party choice, policy preferences, and electoral behavior despite critiques that it oversimplifies multidimensional political space.