Non-authoritarians and wild cards, not left or right authoritarians, drive RWA-LWA correlations

Evidence

To summarize, the Left-Wingers and Right-Wingers behaved as one would expect. But the RWA-LWA correlation came out positive because of the more numerous, and interesting, Unauthoritarians and Wild-Card Authoritarians. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2911

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Introduces the four-cell typology: Left-Wingers, Right-Wingers, Unauthoritarians (low-low), Wild-Card Authoritarians (high-high).