Those high in RWA are less willing to admit personal faults

Evidence

As usual, the Secret Survey sheets were coded for Low and High RWAs (see Chapter 2). Overall, the 95 Lows wrote down 1.87 ugly faults, and the 101 Highs, 1.29 (p < .01). The lower output from Highs was mainly due to 42 students who did not write down anything (42%, compared with 20% of A little later on the Secret Survey I asked, If you gave no answer to the Hidden Observer question above, was it because ___. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1807