Study samples showed greater authoritarian divergence between parties than students estimated

Evidence

This experiment led me to undertake four studies involving actual Canadian (provincial) lawmakers (EOF, pp. 242-252), which suggested the role-playing students had gotten it wrong. They had greatly underestimated the actual differences in authoritarianism among the various caucuses. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 509

Categorization

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