Self-serving bias and compartmentalization of contradictions are universal, not authoritarian-specific

Evidence

A lot of people have trouble making the right inferences from evidence, especially when it comes to seeing what is wrongly concluded. Witness advertising copy. (Or, in Chapter 10, witness how horribly Low RWAs fall for a Big Lie.) Also, people tend to yea-say in general; Highs just do it more than most. In addition, all minds probably have compartments holding contradictory ideas. And Highs are hardly the only self-righteous people running around; we all seem vulnerable to a self-serving bias. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1444

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political motives and unconscious self-deception can coexist without either invalidating the other — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1260