The study targeted socially prescribed consciousness, not individual opinions

Evidence

Our study is more concerned with intellectual supply than with intellectual demand. However, it is not interested in the institutional form of this, in mass communications', but rather in the more vague but omnipresent form in which it touches people in their social existence: in the intellectual atmosphere which they breathe . . . The central interest of the study is therefore not directed towards subjective opinions at all, but rather to those elements of consciousness which are objectively predetermined and prescribed and disseminated socially; it is directed, precisely, towards the objective spirit’, the German ideology'. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1881</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

DO OTHER FINDINGS ABOUT HIGH RWAS NECESSARILY APPLY TO AUTHORITARIAN LEGISLATORS? When you look back at the earlier chapters in this book, and see all the disturbing things that have been associated with High RWAs, it cannot bring joy to the hearts of Republicans (and some Democrats too) that their politicians scored so high on this measure of prefascist personality. But it does not necessarily follow that research findings about authoritarians in general will apply to particular groups. Any particular group can have some feature in its background, or ideological outlook, that cancels a general attribute of High RWAs. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3723 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The German group study targeted objective spirit rather than individual subjective opinion — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1881; Group-level authoritarian findings may not transfer to specific subgroups — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3723

Related

• Group-level authoritarian findings may not transfer to specific subgroups (similarity 0.89)
• The German group study targeted objective spirit rather than individual subjective opinion (similarity 0.89)
• The group-discussion project conflated group spirit with individual attitudes without resolving the contradiction. (similarity 0.81)
• The group-study method remained theoretically confused in practice (similarity 0.79)
• Authoritarians are selectively not anti-introspective (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The German group study targeted objective spirit rather than individual subjective opinion #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1881
• Group-level authoritarian findings may not transfer to specific subgroups #qualifies (0.72) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3723