High RWAs are chronically closer to the panic button than the population

Evidence

Well, it is more serious than that; the “biggest problem” data speak to more than just imprecision in the authoritarian mind. High RWAs stand about ten steps closer to the panic button than the rest of the population. They see the world as a more dangerous place than most others do, with civilization on the verge of collapse and the world of Mad Max looming just beyond. As we saw earlier, their parents taught them the world was dangerous, and the resulting fear drives a lot of their aggression. Ask the militias training in the woods. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1288

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the vault claim that authoritarianism correlates with elevated perceived threat/nationalist alarmism; ties inflated threat perception causally to parental fear teaching, linking back to Cooper on moralized fear.