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| Dogmatism Scale× | Need for Closure Scale× | |
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| Field | Political Psychology | Political Psychology |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1960 | 1994 |
| Originator≠ | Milton Rokeach | Donna M. Webster & Arie W. Kruglanski |
| Type≠ | Self-report personality scale | Self-report individual-difference scale |
| Seminal source≠ | Rokeach, M. (1960). The open and closed mind: Investigations into the nature of belief systems and personality systems. New York: Basic Books. ISBN: 9780465052189 | Webster, D. M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (1994). Individual differences in need for cognitive closure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67(6), 1049-1062. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases | Rokeach D-Scale, Dogmatism Scale Form E, DOG Scale | NFCS, Need for Cognitive Closure Scale, Webster-Kruglanski Scale |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | The Dogmatism Scale, developed by Milton Rokeach (1960), measures dogmatism, the degree to which a person's belief system is closed, rigid, and resistant to change, regardless of its ideological content. Conceived as an ideology-free alternative to the authoritarianism research of the 1950s, it captures closed-mindedness on the left as well as the right, and was later modernized by Altemeyer (2002). | The Need for Cognitive Closure Scale, developed by Webster and Kruglanski (1994), measures a stable individual difference in the desire for a firm, definite answer to a question and an aversion to ambiguity and uncertainty. High need for closure is a key epistemic-motivation construct in political psychology, linked to conservatism, prejudice, intolerance of dissent, and resistance to belief change. |
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