Religiously-based life outlooks score highest on both zealotry and authoritarianism

Evidence

By contrast, in both samples the religiously oriented scored highest not only on the Zealot Scale but also in authoritarianism (means of 152.7 and 168.2, respectively). As you would also surmise from Table 8.2, people who based their life outlook on religion also had the highest scores on the DOG Scale in both samples (means of 74.4 and 83.4). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2782

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the reader’s existing work on how religious identity anchors authoritarian attitudes; the DOG scale link suggests dogmatism coexists with rather than substitutes for zealotry.