High RWAs agree every item proposed is society’s biggest problem

Evidence

I was surprised that, three-quarters of the Highs thought it, of all our social ills, was our most serious problem. Yet when L asked 238 other students the following month if they thought “the destruction of the family” was our most serious problem, 84% of the Highs wrote “Yes,” compared with 38% of the Lows (p < .001). … Furthermore, when I asked 209 students the following fall if they thought the loss of religion and commitment to God represented the most serious problem afflicting our society, 72% of the Highs said “Yes,” compared with 3% of the Lows (p < .001). Thus several different things are all “our most serious problem,” in the not altogether reflective minds of right-wing authoritarians. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1279

Categorization

• XREF: Direct empirical corroboration of Whitehead & Perry/Cooper-style claims about authoritarian threat perception. The 72%-vs-3% religion item is striking fuel for vault claims on Christian nationalism and authoritarian overreaction.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1279