High authoritarians censor their prejudiced answers when not anonymous

Evidence

When I call High RWAs “‘equal-opportunity bigots,” I am assuming that social desirability affects the answers people give to an obvious prejudice scale. That is, people probably pull their punches so as not to look as prejudiced as they might actually be. I am also assuming that Lows and Highs tend to pull their punches equally. I have often found, however, that High RWAs give significantly more prejudiced answers when answering anonymously than when they know they can be identified (just as exit polls of elections involving a black and a white candidate sometimes find more people saying they voted for the minority candidate than actually did). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3915

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the vault’s claim that survey-based prejudice measurements understate authoritarian bigotry due to social desirability response bias. — connects to: Flooding discourse with dishonesty can displace censorship as a control tool — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 227
• QUESTION: The excerpt cuts mid-claim; the key data point about anonymous vs. known responses follows. Flag to confirm whether Lows also pull punches.