Dogmatism and responses to opinion-consistent and opinion-inconsistent information.

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OPEN- AND CLOSED-MINDEDNESS, AS MEASURED BY THE DOGMATISM SCALE, AND RESPONSES TO INFORMATION CONSISTENT AND INCONSISTENT WITH OWN OPINION WAS EXAMINED. AS EXPECTED, DOGMATIC SS DID SHOW LESS RECALL OF INCONSISTENT INFORMATION AND A GREATER TENDENCY TO EVALUATE CONSISTENT INFORMATION MORE POSITIVELY THAN DID OPEN SS. THE EXPECTATIONS THAT DOGMATIC SS WOULD SHOW A GREATER PREFERENCE THAN OPEN SS FOR INFORMATION CONSISTENT WITH THEIR OPINIONS AND WOULD EVALUATE OPINION-INCONSISTENT INFORMATION LESS FAVORABLY WERE NOT CONFIRMED, THOUGH THE DATA WERE IN THE ANTICIPATED DIRECTION. CONSISTENT WITH SOME PREVIOUS RESULTS IN THIS AREA, SS AS A GROUP DID DEMONSTRATE MARKED PREFERENCE FOR OPINION-CONSISTENT INFORMATION. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)

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