Authoritarian submission and conventionalism pair obviously, but aggression-on-behalf-of-authority needs separate explanation.

Evidence

Why Do Authoritarian Submission, Authoritarian Aggression, and Conventionalism Covary? The network of correlations between the items on the RWA Scale and the criterion behaviors, like the correlations among the items themselves, demonstrates that authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, and conventionalism do covary, in many places around the world. Why should this be so? Well, one can readily see why authoritarian submission and conventionalism would go together. Usually, established authorities promote the social conventions that make them established authorities. But why should people who submit the submission and convent the conventions also be so aggressive in the name of that authority? — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 532

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘why aggression?’ gap in RWA theory is worth chasing — what exactly converts deference into punitive rage toward out-groups?