Right-wing authoritarianism predicts willingness to persecute outgroups across multiple samples

Evidence

At San Francisco State University in 1990 RWA scores correlated . with Posse-Homosexuals. Samples from the Universities of Pittsburgh and Houston showed RWA Scale connections of . and .61, respectively, with Posse- Radicals. … Leak and Randall (1995) obtained Posse reactions from 131 Creighton University students. The targets were homosexuals, religious cults, and abortionists; RWA scores correlated .38, .45, and .44, respectively, with relative willingness to help destroy these groups. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 414