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An exploratory investigation of several indices of cognitive functioning within a political domain and their relationship to socio-politico ideology is reported. The term cognitive functioning was sub-divided into three main components, cognitive complexity, cognitive flexibility, and intolerance of ambiguity, and two minor components, cognitive coping and predictive accuracy. The subjects were 46 university students. Correlations and factor analysis showed essentially two general factors of cognitive functioning, neither of which was related to socio-politico ideology. Socio-politico ideology, however, was related to the Budner Intolerance of Ambiguity Scale indicating that the greater one's conservatism, the greater one's intolerance of ambiguity. Socio-politico ideology was defined by the S4 Conservatism Scale recently developed for use within Scandinavian contexts.
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