ALIENATION, DOGMATISM AND ACQUIESCENCE.

The article focuses on a study on dogmatism and alienation. The researcher finds a relationship between dogmatism and alienation, but neglects the problem of acquiescence with the one-way-worded Dogmatism scale. Her results simply may show that alienated people are prone to agree with vague statements. In correlating cognitive complexity scores from the OPI with alienation scores, the researcher ignores the possibility of another artifact-the scales by liberalism/conservatism. Despite their different both scales could be seen largely as alternative scales the OPI with alienation scores, heavy contamination of both titles, from their item content of radicalism.