Adoptive parents transmit authoritarian attitudes as strongly as biological parents do

Evidence

I now have RWA scores on 75 adoptive parents (35 mothers and 40 fathers) of 44 students. The mother-child correlation equals .61, and that for fathers and their adopted children is .50. Overall, the parental average equals .55, which is both statistically significant and embarrassingly higher than the . I usually get across generations with biological connections. These numbers do not support the notion of fascism genes and instead direct our attention THE ”CORN PONE” THEORY Since right-wing authoritarianism consists of a set of attitudes, we must begin our search for any environmental roots of authoritarianism with the dominant theory of opinion formation, which is, of course, Mark Twain’s “Corn Pone” theory. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 972

Categorization

• SEED: The striking finding that adoptive parent-child RWA correlations beat biological ones is an essay hook on how environment, not genes, shapes authoritarianism.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 972