People high in both social dominance and authoritarianism show the highest prejudice of all

Evidence

Third, some social dominators could express strong belief in submitting to the established authorities on the RWA scale if they consider themselves (now or someday) the authorities others should submit to. Hitler would seem to have been such a person, and the students who role-played his beliefs produced extremely high scores on both the SDO and RWA scales. Such “High SDO-High RWAs” are somewhat rare, as the correlation between the two measures only comes in around .20. But about 8% of my samples did score in the upper quartiles of both the RWA and SDO distributions. These “dominating right-wing authoritarians” proved distinctive in another way. In every study, they had the highest prejudice scores of any group in the sample. They are thus the most worrisome persons I have found in my investigations. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1081

Categorization

• BMF: This dual-disposition type—submitting to authority while secretly believing oneself the future authority others should obey—evokes the psychology of O’Brien’s engineered obedience layered over personal dominance in 1984, though that book is not in the library; closer to the fanatical devotion-and-ambition of characters in Things Fall Apart’s authoritarian chieftaincy dynamics.
• SEED: Angle for an essay on how ‘dominating authoritarians’ who combine submission toward higher authority with domination over inferiors map onto structures of abuse and institutional cruelty.
• XREF: Connects to Milgram’s obedience experiments and the banality of evil literature on how authority channels aggression through ordinary roles.