In a simulated world, high-authoritarian leaders produced famine and war where low-authoritarians cooperated

Evidence

By the time the game ended, 1.7 billion people had died from starvation and disease—nearly all of them in the Third World. Including the 400 million who died in war, the total deaths in the High RWA world reached 2.1 billion. The world was less crowded (6.7 billion) than in the Low RWA run, but Highs achieved population control through starvation, disease, and war. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1750

Categorization

• XREF: Qualifies and dramatically illustrates the vault’s causal claim that authoritarianism predicts nationalistic aggression and disregard for out-group life.