Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7324502 | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | 2015 | 36 Pages |
Abstract
Although cultural values generally prescribe open-mindedness, open-minded cognition systematically varies across individuals and situations. According to the Earned Dogmatism Hypothesis, social norms dictate that experts are entitled to adopt a relatively dogmatic, closed-minded orientation. As a consequence, situations that engender self-perceptions of high expertise elicit a more closed-minded cognitive style. These predictions are confirmed in six experiments.
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Authors
Victor Ottati, Erika D. Price, Chase Wilson, Nathanael Sumaktoyo,