Exploitive manipulative dishonesty correlates with dominance but not authoritarianism

Evidence

Responses to its 20 items intercorrelated . on the average, giving an alpha of .88. High E-MAD parents were usually PP-MAD as well, the Mad-Mad correlation being .71. Such parents also scored higher on SDO (.53), pooh-poohed sexual harassment issues (.53), and proved more ethnocentric (.39). But again, they were not likely to be high RWAs (.11). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1028

Categorization

• XREF: The repeated RWA-null finding for exploitive/mad traits is a running thread throughout this chapter’s data presentations. — connects to: A culture of domination depends on addiction to lying and denial — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 69; Dominance psychology is older than prestige and runs on fear-based coercion — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 396