High authoritarians systematically avoid contact with outgroups and rule-breaking experiences

Evidence

The trouble is, most High RWAs had never (knowingly) met a homosexual. Nor, they said, had they gotten to know any dissenters or “unpatriotic” or nonreligious people either. They had had no close contact with nontraditional families. They had not taken advantage of the greater freedom young people have to explore and experiment. They had not broken rules, smoked things they should not smoke, or read verboten magazines under the covers by flash- light. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1008

Categorization

• XREF: Shows experiential isolation as self-reinforcing: predicts directional selection of news/info filters relevant to the vault’s authoritarianism-media claims.