The scores of 68 undergraduates on Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale correlated significantly with their responses to a conventionality measure, as dogmatism theory would predict. These attitudinal findings are consistent with the results of experimental research on the manifestations of dogmatism and authoritarianism.
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