Individual Differences and Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy

The paper presents results of the experimental study on the government’s remembrance policy, attitudes towards it, and the influence of remembrance narratives. it discusses individual differences of participants on three different grounds: (1) interest in history or politics, and level of historical knowledge, (2) features of cognitive motivation measured by the need for closure question‐ naire: preference of order, desire for predictability, discomfort with ambiguity, closed mindedness and decisiveness, and (3) response to the presented nar‐ rative, including inspired emotions and an assessment of a story. Collected data and research observations offer an interesting and valuable insight into relationships between various factors and citizen’s support for the remem‐ * nicolaus Copernicus University in toruń; ** Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland Educational research institute in warsaw; Jagiellonian University in Kraków; nicolaus Copernicus University in toruń, University in rostock; The paper is a result of the project “Commitment, positive vs. negative emotions and the efficacy of politics of memory” supported by the national Science Center in Kraków (Poland), on the basis of decision no. dEC‐2013/09/n/HS5/03103. 125 Individual Differences and Attitudes towards brance policy. They also lead the team to formulate three conclusions which may be used to develop theoretical understandings of this aspect of politics within political science and related disciplines.