The Authoritarians/traits

Some quick notes (originally by jsrrts), to be expanded later:

followers

Authoritarian Followers score highly on:

• The Right-Wing Authoritarianism scale (RWA) (Chapter 1)
• Could be ~26% of US public (see footnote 9 chapter 3)

Authoritarian Followers are:

• Submissive to established, legitimate Authorities in their society
  • Scored low on Illegal Government Wiretap Seriousness test
  • Favoured the Repeal Bill of Rights letter
• Highly aggressive on behalf of those Authorities
  • Longer Sentences for the Punishment of Mr Smith
• Self-Righteous
  • Score highly on the Predijuce test
• Fearful
  • Score highly on the Posse test
• Highly Conventional
  • Score highly on the Dangerous World test
  • Score highly on the Young People Notion test
  • Performed poorly on the Global Change Game
  • Score low on the Experiences Scale (Chapter 2)
• Illogical, uncritical Thinkers
  • Less independent on the Existence of God decision test (Chapter 3)
• Have Highly Compartmentalized Minds
  • Believed that US found weapons of Mass Destruction within Iraq
• Exhibit Double Standards
  • Show Double standard on the Trials Case test
• Hypocritical
  • Score highly on the Censorship Quiz
• Un-Self-Reflective
• Profoundly Ethnocentric
  • Score highly on the Group Loyality Quiz
• Dogmatic
  • Score highly on the Dogmatic (DOG) Scale

leaders

Authoritarian Leaders score highly on the:

• Social Dominance Orientation scale Chapter 5
• Weak correlation with the RWA scale
  • (which is why they are more like separate dimensions)

Authoritarian Leaders are:

• More prejudiced than followers
• Desire power
  • Score highly on the Personal Power, Meanness, and Dominance Scale (MAD)
• Intimidating, Ruthless, Vengeful, Religious Pretense, Little Empathy
  • Score highly on The Exploitive Manipulative Amoral Dishonesty Scale (Exploitive-MAD)
• Dislike Equality
  • Score highly on the Against Equality test
• "Lethal Union" with Authoritarian in power, RWA following.

"double-highs"

Double-Highs score highly on both "follower" and "leader" scales:

• The Right-Wing Authoritarianism scale (RWA) Chapter 1
• Social Dominance Orientation scale Chapter 5
• 5-10% of Authoritarian Leaders are Double Highs

Double Highs are:

• Worst of the lot - Score "worst" on all scales
  • Score highly on The Exploitive Manipulative Amoral Dishonesty Scale
  • Score highly on the "Militia" scale
• Most prejudice
  • Very high on the Prejudice test
• Best chance of attracting RWA followers
  • Together performed badly on the Global Change Game
    • planet reliably reduced to radioactive wasteland
  • Overreach on power and domination

religious fundamentalists

Religious Fundamentalists score highly on the

• Religious Fundamentalism scale (Chapter 4)
• Solid Majority are RWA (followers?)
• Correlated .47 with Dangerous World
• Correlated .61 on "Liberal--Conservatism" Scale

Religious Fundamentalists are:

• Evangelical
  • Most are classified as Evangelical by the Evangelical Test
• Religiously intolerant
  • Score highly on the Religious Ethnocentrism scale
• Illogical, uncritical Thinkers, Compartmentalized minds, Double standards, Hypocritical, Dogmatic, Selective Ignorance
  • Correlated .62 with Dogmatic Scale
  • School Prayer: Majority Rights, unless... test
  • Selective Ignorance on Evolution
  • The Bible is always right, unless... test
• Little belief in scientific method
• Happy
• Zealots
  • Score highly on the Zealot scale
• Less Guilt
  • Have cheap grace on the Guilt resolution test
• Bible reading
  • Scored only 60% on easy Bible Quiz
  • Read on average about 20 books of the Bible 1/3 of total