Authoritarianism correlates with all six distinct components of conservatism

Evidence

Paul Trapnell (personal communication, July 1993) gave the RWA Scale and eight-item measures of six different aspects of psychological conservatism to 722 University of British Columbia students. He found authoritarianism correlated . with Intrinsic Religiosity, . with Authority, . with Punitiveness, . with Sexual Constraint, . with Traditionalism, and . with Propriety. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 490

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Authoritarianism can manifest on the political left as well as right — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 446