Adult personality and authoritarianism remain changeable long past childhood

Evidence

I am struck by the considerable changes that occurred in the second half of many of these lives. The data hardly confirm Freudian notions that adult personality is set by the age of six. The “formative years” seem to extend to age thirty-six at least! — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1139

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the malleability of political attitudes central to the vault’s Christian-nationalism claims; pairs with research on attitude plasticity in adulthood.