Authoritarians make far more attribution errors than non-authoritarians

Evidence

Do these experiments demonstrate that right-wing authoritarians are “antiintraceptive,” as the Berkeley researchers proposed? That is, are they opposed to the subjective and tender-minded, and against concern with what people think and feel? They are only if you look at just half the data. Highs were quite interested in learning about the self-esteem measure when they thought they had scored high on it, and they usually wanted to be told if they were unprejudiced. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4166 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Attributing Holocaust perpetration to authoritarian personality may itself be a fundamental attribution error. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 461; High authoritarians fail to recognize authoritarian traits in themselves; Low-authoritarians showed no better critical reasoning than high-authoritarians — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4346 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Authoritarians differ from others only in degree of shared human weaknesses #complicates (0.75)
• Authoritarians are selectively not anti-introspective #complicates (0.73) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4166
• High authoritarians fail to recognize authoritarian traits in themselves #complicates (0.72)