Self-identified socialist students show surprisingly high authoritarianism unlike socialist parents

Evidence

You might accordingly infer that if capitalists looked really bad on these measures, socialists must have looked really good. This proved true among the parents, whose socialists scored lowest in RWA, fifth in DOG, fifth in Zealot, and lowest in Ethnocentrism, ATH, and Posse. But among the students, socialists ranked third in RWA, DOG, and Zealot scores, second in Ethnocentrism, fourth in ATH, and third in Posse-Radicals (sic!). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2785

Categorization

• SEED: The socialist-student anomaly (authoritarian leftists) is a striking, discussable pattern — angle for a piece on political self-labeling vs. measured psychological attitude.