HOW DESIRABLE IS DOGMATISM?
J. J. Ray University of New South Wales J. Martin Macquarie University This report is concerned with the relationship between scores on the Rokeach Dogmatism scale, the Martin (1964) Social Desirability scale and amount of university education. The underlying theory is that dogmatism is inimical to higher education and is socially undesirable. Rather than asking people the rather hypothetical question of whether they think dogmatism to be socially undesirable, the scale-based approach used here is to see if people’s pattern of response to dogmatic statements is similar to their response to socially undesirable statements. It is a covert way of finding out if people really do treat dogmatism as socially undesirable. The two scales were administered in class time to psychology students at Macquarie University. The results were divided up into those students who had one, two and three or more years of contact with a university. As was expected from previous work (Ray, 1970), it was found
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