Even low authoritarians share belief in pseudo-science and motivated reasoning

Evidence

Similarly, almost everyone can be shaken by fear of “‘our biggest problem” and various crises, as we saw at the end of Chapter 3. Lows believe in biorhythms and ESP almost as much as Highs do. Who among us does not scrutinize evidence supporting disagreeable conclusions more than evidence for what we want to believe? If Lows and Moderates did not also make the Fundamental Attribution Error, it would not be called the Fundamental Attribution Error. Almost everyone uses consensual validation to shore up personal beliefs. And each one of us is probably ethnocentric in many ways. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1445