this article describes and explains some theoretical challenges to political ideologies and seeks to offer some proper responses to these challenges. in this regard, the following ideas are concentrated: 1) the political ideologies have their own subjective and objective motives and their own cognitive basics. the more these motives and basics change the more the political ideologies modifies. ...

There is currently a debate in political psychology about whether dogmatism and belief superiority are symmetric or asymmetric across the ideological spectrum. Toner, Leary, Asher, Jongman-Sereno (2013) found that was higher among conservatives than liberals, but both liberals with extreme attitudes reported perceived of beliefs. In current study, we conducted preregistered direct conceptual re...

Our theoretical assumption is that behind the dogmatism-religion positive but not systematic relation, a clearer one may exist between religion and need for closure (Webster & Kruglanski, 1994). A positive association of religiosity with need for closure was hypothesized (except with the decisiveness facet). Subjects (n = 239) were administered the Need for Closure Scale (NFCS), the Religious F...

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This work discusses the presence of a dogmatic tendency within modern cosmology, and some ideas capable of neutralizing its negative influence. It is verified that warnings about the dangers of dogmatic thinking in cosmology can be found as early as the 1930’s, and we discuss the modern appearance of “scientific dogmatism”. The solution proposed to counteract such an influence, which is capable...

Given a few assumptions, the probability of a conjunction is raised, and the probability of its negation is lowered, by conditionalising upon one of the conjuncts. This simple result appears to bring Bayesian confirmation theory into tension with the prominent dogmatist view of perceptual justification – a tension often portrayed as a kind of ‘Bayesian objection’ to dogmatism. In a recent paper...