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Dogmatic Behavior Among Students: Testing a New Measure of Dogmatism.
- Source :
- Journal of Social Psychology; Dec2002, Vol. 142 Issue 6, p713-721, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- ABSTRACT. The study tested the validity of a new measure of dogmatism by examining university students' evaluations of the Bible. Those who believed that every word in the Bible came directly from God and that the Bible is free of any error, contradiction, or inconsistency scored much higher on this dogmatism measure than students who thought otherwise. Such "true believers" then read the 4 highly varying Gospel accounts of the resurrection of Jesus. The most dogmatic of them still insisted there were no contradictions or inconsistencies in the Bible. The less dogmatic acknowledged that contradictions and inconsistencies exist. These results reinforce those of 4 earlier studies that indicated that the new measure of dogmatism has empirical validity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DOGMATISM
COLLEGE students
THOUGHT & thinking
STUDENTS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00224545
- Volume :
- 142
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 8558728
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224540209603931