Elected officials show stronger nationalist bias than university students

Evidence

These elected officials accordingly had the highest net nationalistic image score of any of the five samples. Table 11.2 shows that, in each legislature, high RWAs tended to see the world in black-and-white terms, with the overall correlation being .66—much stronger than the connections of . to . found among the university students. Republicans consistently had bigger double standards and nationalistic image scores than Democrats (.49). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3497

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the author’s earlier finding that High RWAs compartmentalize and see the world in black-and-white terms across university samples; the elected sample pushes that pattern further.