Open-Minded Cognition Scale

Biases and their impact on opinions of transgender bathroom usage

“…Meanwhile, those who had low AOT were more likely to discuss immediate relationships. These findings highlight that open-mindedness is associated with considering others' opinions, even when they disconfirm one's own opinions or may be unpleasant (Carpenter et al, 2018;Stanovich & West, 2007), and with warmth toward minorities (Price et al, 2015).…”

“…Research suggests that higher levels of open-mindedness is associated with greater civic and political engagement than lower levels (Kam, 2006), and there is a negative association between openmindedness and conservatism (Baron, 2017). Interestingly, research suggests that both AOT and OMC predict warmth toward transgender people (this prediction was marginally significant for the OMC; Price et al, 2015Price et al, , p. 1501).…”

“…This thinking style also includes the ability to consider other opinions when forming one's own opinion. Though there are many forms of open-mindedness, we focus on two empirically backed open-minded thinking styles, Actively Open-Minded Thinking (Stanovich & West, 1997 and Open-Minded Cognition (Price et al, 2015). Stanovich and West (1997) developed the Actively Open-Minded thinking scale (AOT) to assess levels of belief change and cognitive flexibility.…”

“…Open-minded cognition political is a validated 6-item scale (α = .94; Price et al, 2015). Participants were asked to rate the degree in which the statements described themselves (1 = strongly disagree;…”