The epistemic attitudes of scientists, such as epistemic tolerance and authoritarianism, play important roles in the discourse about rivaling theories. Epistemic tolerance stands for the mental attitude of an epistemic agent, e.g., a scientist, who is open to opposing views, while epistemic authoritarianism represents the tendency to uncritically accept views of authorities. Another relevant epistemic factor when it comes to the epistemic decisions of scientists is the skepticism towards the scientific method. However, the question is whether these epistemic attitudes are influenced by their sociopolitical counterparts, such as the researcher’s degree of conservatism. To empirically investigate the interplay between epistemic and sociopolitical attitudes of scientists, we conducted a survey with researchers (N = 655) across different disciplines. We propose scales for measuring epistemic tolerance and epistemic authoritarianism, as well as a scale for detecting the participants' readiness to question the scientific method. Furthermore, we investigate the relationship between epistemic tolerance and epistemic authoritarianism on the one hand, and career stage and sociopolitical views on the other hand. Interestingly, our study found only small correlations between the participants' degree of conservatism and their epistemic attitudes. This suggests that political views, against common argumentation, actually do not play an important role in one’s scientific decisions. Moreover, social scientists scored higher on the epistemic tolerance and lower on the epistemic authoritarianism scale than natural scientists. Finally, the results indicate that natural scientists question the scientific method less than social scientists.

科学家的认知态度，如认知宽容和威权主义，在竞争理论的话语中扮演着重要的角色。认知宽容代表认知主体的心理态度，例如科学家，他对反对意见持开放态度，而认知威权主义则代表不加批判地接受权威观点的倾向。当涉及到科学家的认知决定时，另一个相关的认知因素是对科学方法的怀疑。然而，问题是这些认知态度是否受到其社会政治对应物的影响，例如研究人员的保守主义程度。为了实证研究科学家的认知态度和社会政治态度之间的相互作用，我们对研究人员进行了一项调查（N = 655) 跨不同学科。我们提出了衡量认知宽容和认知威权主义的量表，以及检测参与者对科学方法提出质疑的准备程度的量表。此外，我们一方面考察认知宽容与认知威权主义之间的关系，另一方面考察职业阶段和社会政治观点之间的关系。有趣的是，我们的研究发现参与者的保守主义程度与其认知态度之间只有很小的相关性。这表明，反对共同论点的政治观点实际上在一个人的科学决策中并没有发挥重要作用。此外，与自然科学家相比，社会科学家在认知容忍度上的得分更高，而在认知威权主义量表上的得分更低。最后，