RWA scores correlate strongly with indifference to human rights in many countries

Evidence

Other researchers have also found that right-wing authoritarians have little interest in protecting human rights. Moghaddam and Vuksanovic (1990) found RWA Scale correlations of .66, .42, and .52, respectively, with McGill University students’ indifference to human rights issues in Canada, the Soviet Union, and the Third World. McFarland, Ageyev, and Abalakina (1990) found, among Soviet citizens in the dying days of the USSR, RWA correlations of . — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 283

Categorization

• XREF: Direct empirical corroboration backing Whitehead & Perry’s Christian-nationalism claims about rights indifference in the vault.