Authoritarian aggression targets anyone threatening authority, not only norm violators

Evidence

Sanford and his colleagues limited authoritarian aggression to attacks on people who violate conventional values (p. 228). Therefore, shocking the Learner in Milgram’s experiment would not constitute authoritarian aggression. Neither would attacks on women. By contrast, the model of right-wing authoritarianism presented at the beginning of this chapter acknowledges that the victims can be anyone—as indeed they can. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 607

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the vault’s claim that authoritarianism predicts prejudice/nationalism: Altemeyer’s wider victim-target definition is the empirically tested one, contrasting with the Berkeley narrowing.
• DEFINE: Clarifies how Altemeyer’s RWA construct widened the victim pool relative to the original Berkeley definition.