Yeasaying bias is completely independent from authoritarianism

Evidence

It had occurred to several investigators that Yeasaying, since it seems to be a matter of accepting authoritative statements, might itself be a manifestation of authoritarianism. However, Couch and Keniston demonstrated with pure measures of Yeasaying and of authoritarianism (using a balanced scale) that the two personality characteristics are completely independent. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 591

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the F Scale work in this chapter; also echoes the caution that superficially related response tendencies can be orthogonal constructs.