One underlying authoritarianism trait explains many disparate attitudes

Evidence

What links trusting Nixon during Watergate, hating homosexuals, opposing abortion, liking hospitals run in traditional ways, thinking blacks are naturally violent, blaming our social problems on the Bill of Rights, being religious, and so on? To surprisingly large degrees, authoritarianism lay beneath all of these. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 589 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Here Allport described research reported in the great classic by Adorno, Frenkel- Brunswick, Levinson, and Sanford (1950), The Authoritarian Personality, published shortly before Allport’s book, which showed that individuals’ attitudes to completely different outgroups and minorities were strongly correlated. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2426 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An authoritarian personality could be publicly socialist yet convert readily to Nazism; A single authoritarian personality drives disparate news events across eras.; Authoritarian Personality research found attitudes across unrelated outgroups strongly correlate — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2426 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Authoritarianism underlies a wide array of seemingly unrelated political attitudes #corroborates (0.96) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 589
• Authoritarian Personality research found attitudes across unrelated outgroups strongly correlate #exemplifies (0.95) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2426
• Authoritarianism shifts with situational threat and status cues #complicates (0.85)
• Authoritarian traits may cohere as class norms rather than psychic dynamics #complicates (0.84)
• Authoritarian personality traits co-correlate robustly except for status-concern and cognitive rigidity #complicates (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 651