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Rokeach Dogmatism Scale

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The Rokeach Dogmatism Scale is a nonprojective personality measure of dogmatism developed by Milton Rokeach.

The scale was an early attempt to measure pure authoritarianism, whether left or right. The scale was carefully designed to measure "closed mindedness" without regard to ideology. Nevertheless, researchers found that it correlated with political conservatism.[1] In a similar line of research, Philip Tetlock found that right wing beliefs are associated with less integrative complexity than left wing beliefs. People with moderate liberal attitudes had the highest integrative complexity in their cognitions.[2]


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