High RWAs blame victims rather than authorities who order harm

Evidence

Like Blass, I found the 53 High RWAs were significantly less likely than the 47 Lows to hold the authority, the Experimenter, responsible for what was happening (61. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 290

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Guards likely misattributed victims’ filth to the victims’ own nature, not their own doing — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 363