Authoritarians apply a double standard favoring agreeable evidence when judging truth

Evidence

Let me repeat: High RWAs do not believe everything they hear. They will reject out of hand “dangerous ideas” from “bad sources.” But they show a hefty double standard when testing for truth: evidence for disagreeable conclusions is scrutinized more critically than evidence supporting what the authoritarian wants to believe. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1298

Categorization

• XREF: This motivated-reasoning asymmetry underpins the vault’s claims about selective evidence acceptance in nationalist and Christian-nationalist milieus.
• QUESTION: Is this motivated reasoning best explained by the belief-identification mechanism later chapters discuss, and does it generalize beyond Highs to ideological partisans generally?