Consider the phenomenon of belief polarization. Suppose that two individuals—let’s call them ‘You’ and ‘I’--disagree about some non-straightforward matter of fact: say, about whether capital punishment tends to have a deterrent effect on the commission of murder. Although neither of us is certain of his or her view, I believe that capital punishment is a deterrent while You believe that it is n...

In a series of three experiments, encoding distinctiveness in a release from proactive inhibition paradigm was investigated as a function of dogmatism. Significant differences in release from proactive inhibition between high and low dogmatic individuals were found for shifts within meaning dimensions (from one end of a dimension to the other end) but not for shifts between different dimensions...

For the longest time, quantitative and qualitative methods have been considered opposing mutually exclusive categories within methodology of social science. This is best showcased by conflicts arising between proponents these differing approaches - that are often characterized an air methodological dogmatism. The term ?methodological dogmatism? refers to conviction researchers in superiority th...

Abstract Some epistemic agents will not change their position on a claim. These are dogmatists, common creatures in our communities. This paper discusses the population-level effects of increasing numbers dogmatists. All model assigned degree belief (using Likert-type scale) and adopt beliefs others interactions. Subsets Analysis results suggests that even modest increase group's dogmatists can...

I argue that its appearing to you that P does not provide justification for believing that P unless you have independent justification for the denial of skeptical alternatives -hypotheses incompatible with P but such that if they were true, it would still appear to you that P. Thus I challenge the popular view of ‘dogmatism,’ according to which for some contents P, you need only lack reason to ...