The Low-High authoritarian divide mirrors the high-neo-Nazi divide as degree not kind
Evidence
Let me repeat one more time: if the difference between ordinary High RWAs and neo-Nazis is a matter of degree, so also is the difference between Lows and Highs. I would not be surprised if some day researchers find worse things about Lows than we presently know. But considering the overall evidence, I would much rather be a Low RWA than a High. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3819
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
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- Authoritarian and non-authoritarian groups differ in degree, not kind, of traits. (similarity 0.91)
- People high in left-wing authoritarianism tended also to score high on right-wing authoritarianism (similarity 0.83)
- Threat shifts moderate and low authoritarians most, not the already-high (similarity 0.81)
- Authoritarians apply a double standard favoring agreeable evidence when judging truth (similarity 0.80)
- Even on the left-wing authoritarian scale, right-wing authoritarians dominate the high-scorers. (similarity 0.80)
- Authoritarians reason in isolated compartments without perspective-taking (similarity 0.80)
- Right-wing authoritarians show more hostility and dogmatism than left-wingers (similarity 0.80)
- Even experts conflate authoritarianism with neo-Nazism (similarity 0.79)
- Group-level authoritarian findings may not transfer to specific subgroups (similarity 0.79)
- Authoritarians’ ideological loyalties are arbitrary products of culture, not reason (similarity 0.79)
- Low authoritarians show double standards favoring liberal figures and causes (similarity 0.79)
- Many conservatives differ from violent authoritarians only in degree, not kind (similarity 0.79)
- Authoritarian dispositions can attach to whichever authority happens to be in power (similarity 0.79)
- High authoritarians yea-say slightly more than low authoritarians do (similarity 0.79)
- Low RWAs occasionally misbehave but still differ fundamentally in integrity from Highs (similarity 0.79)