Some people would rather have a wrong answer now than wait for the right one

Psychologist Arie Kruglanski identified 'need for closure': a stable trait describing how urgently someone craves certainty over ambiguity. People high in the trait seize on the first plausible answer, resist information that complicates it, and judge quickly — efficient under pressure, but prone to premature, rigid conclusions.

— Arie W. Kruglanski, Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge: Cognitive and Motivational Bases — 1989

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