Personality and emotional correlates of right-wing authoritarianism

By J. Butler. 2000

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Authoritarianism, or the tendency to be hierarchical, conventional, and intolerant, has been implicated as an extreme feature of general right-wing ideology. The relationship between this ideological pattern and variables of personality and emotion was investigated in 3 studies. In studies 1 and 2 personality traits were assessed in terms of the 5-factor model, as well as right-wing authoritarianism, conservatism, and a battery of other political attitude measures. In study 3 the positive and negative affect of individuals with differing levels of authoritarianism was examined. The results demonstrate that the authoritarian syndrome is primarily characterized by low openness to experience, and that it is unrelated to self-reported measures of emotion.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Personality, identity styles and authoritarianism: an integrative study among late adolescents (2006, background): “In this respect, however, it should be noted that, although Conscientiousness is consistently positively related to RWA, this relation does not always reach significance (Butler, 2000; Heaven & Bucci, 2001; Peterson, Smirles, & Wentworth, 1997; Trapnell, 1994).”
“I Know Things They Don’t Know!”: The Role of Need for Uniqueness in Belief in Conspiracy Theories (2017, methodology): “The R syntax to reproduce these results is available online: https://osf.io/5323p/. value social conventions (Butler, 2000).”
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation: Their Roots in Big-Five Personality Fa (2006, background): “However, we have traced four studies that have examined and discussed the relations of the Openness to Experience factor and its facets with RWA or authoritarianism ( Butler, 2000, Study 2; Hodson & Sorrentino, 1999; Trapnell, 1994; Van Hiel & Mervielde, 2004, Study 1). Interestingly, in all these ”
The Relationship between Personality Traits and Psychological Resilience among the Caribbean Adolescents (2010, background): “Being open and closed to experience are simply two different ways of relating to the world (Butler 2000).”
The intervening role of social worldviews in the relationship between the five‐factor model of personality and social attitudes (2007, background): “Whereas Butler (2000), Study 2), Heaven and Bucci (2001), Peterson et al. (1997), Trapnell (1994) and Van Hiel and Mervielde (1996a) reported non-significant correlations, Caprara et al. (1999), Riemann et al. (1993), Duriez and Soenens (2006), and Van Hiel and Mervielde (1996b) obtained…”
The closed mind: ‘Experience’ and ‘cognition’ aspects of openness to experience and need for closure as psychological bases for right–wing attitudes (2011, background): “Similarly, Butler (2000), Hodson and Sorrentino (1999) and Peterson, Smirles, and Wentworth (1997) reported that low openness was associated with high Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA; Altemeyer, 1988) in both student and adult samples.”
Individual value structure and diversity attitudes: The moderating effects of age, gender, race, and religiosity (2005, background): “A recent study by Caligiuri (2000) found that openness to people (a related construct) interacted with contact (i.”