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	Dogmatism Scale	Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale
Field	Political Psychology	Social Psychology
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1960	1981
Originator	Milton Rokeach	Bob Altemeyer
Type	Self-report personality scale	Self-report Likert 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	Altemeyer, B. (1981). Right-wing authoritarianism. University of Manitoba Press.
Aliases	Rokeach D-Scale, Dogmatism Scale Form E, DOG Scale	RWA
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 Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (RWA) is a self-report measure developed by Bob Altemeyer in 1981 to assess individual differences in authoritarian attitudes, including submission to established authorities, adherence to conventional norms, and aggression toward those perceived to violate social conventions. The scale measures three core dimensions: authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, and conventionalism. It has become a cornerstone of research on authoritarianism, political attitudes, and intergroup prejudice.