Dogmatism’s link to aggression vanishes when right-wing authoritarianism is controlled

Evidence

DOG scores also correlated significantly with the three measures of authoritarian aggression in the booklets: Ethnocentrism (about .25), ATH (about .40), and Posse (about .30). But as was true with the links between Religious Fundamentalism and aggression that we saw in the last chapter, these relationships disappear when you partial out the mutual connections with right-wing authoritarianism. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4279

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the Religious Fundamentalism–aggression nullification from the prior chapter; both point to RWA as the driving construct. — connects to: Dogmatism grounded in stateable principles uniquely opposes authoritarianism and relativism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2400
• DEFINE: Illustrates partialling out as the statistical method for testing whether a third variable explains an apparent correlation.