Most left-wing party supporters lacked a matching radical personality type.
Evidence
The conclusion of the study seemed to be the observation that only a minority of the supporters of the left-wing parties showed the ideal type of radical attitude, while for most of them there was a greater or lesser discrepancy between political viewpoint and personality structure. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 707
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to later authoritarian-personality research (Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality) and the general finding that political ideology doesn’t map cleanly onto personality structure. — connects to: Only 15 percent of Weimar left-wing voters were radical in both thought and feeling — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 193; Extremist parties need diverse personality types, not uniform authoritarians. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 682; Only 15% of German workers structurally matched left-wing parties in personality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 708 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Only 15% of German workers structurally matched left-wing parties in personality
#corroborates(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 708 - Left-wing authoritarianism is nearly nonexistent in contemporary samples
#corroborates(0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1003 - Apparent left-wing authoritarians were actually high-RWA wild cards who drifted into radical movements
#corroborates(0.85) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2993 - Supposed left-wing authoritarians in past movements were probably right-wing wild cards
#corroborates(0.80) - Decades of attempts to find a left-wing analogue to authoritarianism have come up empty
#expands(0.80) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2808 - Extremist parties need diverse personality types, not uniform authoritarians.
#expands(0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 682 - Extremists of left and right share tough-minded personality traits
#qualifies(0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2336