Authoritarian attitudes correlate strongly with reported authoritarian experiences across sites

Evidence

These studies were performed with Manitoba students and reported in Altemeyer, 1988. On October 24, 1989, David Hansen administered the RWA Scale for me to 183 SUNY-Potsdam students. Sixteen days later I visited his campus and gave out the Experiences Scale to 143 of these same participants. The surveys were printed on different size and color paper and answered on different bubble sheets, and no connection was made between the two studies by either experimenter. Yet the scores on the two scales correlated .71. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 997

Categorization

• XREF: Replicates the attitude-behavior/environment link central to the vault’s Christian-nationalism and authoritarianism claims (Cooper, Whitehead & Perry).