PSYC 3020 Study Guide - Dogma, Authoritarianism, Religious Discrimination

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3020
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Conservatism, dogmatism, and authoritarianism in british police officers. Conservatism: a sense of resistance to change and a tendency to prefer safe, traditional, and conventional forms of institutions and behaviour. Dogmatism: a closed and inflexible mode of thinking, an authoritarian outlook on life, and an intolerant attitude towards opposing beliefs. The police force attracts conservative and authoritarian personalities. Basic training has a temporary liberalizing effect on police recruits. Continued police service results in increasingly illiberal/intolerant attitudes towards coloured immigration. 48 recruit constables (young police officers in training), 36 probationers (20+ months of service), and 30 control group subjects (matching ses as officers) First filled out questionnaire gathering basic age, sex, education information. After the tests, three open-ended questions were asked regarding death penalty,". No significant differences in dogmatism in this study. Tendency for probationers to score higher than the recruits on the conservatism and authoritarian measures (although ns)