Right-wing authoritarianism predicts blaming AIDS victims and demanding quarantine
Evidence
On a somewhat related note, Peterson, Doty, and Winter (1993) administered five items about AIDS to 278 Michigan students. All the items had significant correlations with RWA scores, running from . to .52. The . came from a statement that the “AIDS plague had been passed to decent people.” Another item, demanding that everyone with AIDS be quarantined, correlated .46. A third statement, that “‘AIDS victims have human feelings,” had an r of —.43. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 368
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Higher authoritarianism predicts stronger AIDS stigma and punitiveness (similarity 0.91)
- Right-wing authoritarianism predicts willingness to persecute outgroups across multiple samples (similarity 0.81)
- Authoritarians blame the homeless and justify violence against abortion providers and environmentalists (similarity 0.79)
- Authoritarianism predicts hostile backlash against feminists. (similarity 0.79)
- Right-wing authoritarianism predicts persecution and harsh sentencing more strongly than social dominance does. (similarity 0.78)