The Authoritarians/traits
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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
- Together performed badly on the Global Change Game
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
- 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