Rokeach made dogmatism a content-free cognitive style capturing both left and right authoritarianism

Evidence

In response to this criticism, Rokeach (1954) conceptualized dogmatism as a cognitive style characterized by “a relatively closed cognitive organization of beliefs and disbeliefs about reality” that “provides a framework for patterns of intolerance towards others” (p. 195), and developed the D scale to measure it. Persons high on dogmatism would be highly susceptible to authoritarian ideologies of either right or left, and likely to reject persons who held beliefs different from their own. Like Allport, but not Adorno et al., Rokeach viewed cognitive style as a core trait of the “prejudiced personality.” — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2444

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Rokeach’s dogmatism construct and the D scale as the content-neutral alternative to the F scale.
• XREF: The intellectual ancestor of later content-free models like right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation as distinguishable dimensions.