Dogmatism Scale
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).
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Sources
- 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. (2002). Dogmatic behavior among students: Testing a new measure of dogmatism. The Journal of Social Psychology, 142(6), 713-721. DOI: 10.1080/00224540209603931 ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Rokeach Dogmatism Scale. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/political-psychology/dogmatism-scale
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