Robert Altemeyer

There is a lot of very interesting research about the psychological roots of our political leanings, much of it from Robert Altemeyer. But others are picking up where he left off and finding some interesting data. For instance, one of the key differences now discovered is how widely we extend our concern for ...

According to the psychologist Robert Altemeyer, these conspiracy theorists often possess a set of traits that he describes as “right-wing authoritarianism”. Right-wing authoritarians are often ethnocentric, biased, aggressive, self-righteous, dogmatic, poor at self-reflection and fearful. They are attracted to the ...

You can read the whole thing here, but I wanted to call special attention to an essay by Rob Boston, the Director of Communications at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. His article offers an overview of his three decades in the trenches, specifically focusing on the issue of God in the ...

@John Cannery This is classic psychology of the "The Authoritarians" by Robert Altemeyer. Every step of the character analysis that people are making here and other blogs speaks directly to the Right Wing Authoritarians, their followers and the touch of self righteousness that tips that sanity over to the ...

Election 2016 has taken a turn into territory unfamiliar and perhaps mildly terrifying to many Americans, potentially heading down a dark road characterized by political violence and what social scientists call “authoritarian aggression,” defined by retired Professor of Psychology Robert Altemeyer as “a ...

In 2003 Robert Altemeyer, the father of contemporary Right-wing authoritarianism research, reported on a series of global leadership simulations. Publishing in the Journal “Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy” Altemeyer named his paper, “What Happens When Authoritarians Inherit the Earth?

Dean especially cites the work of American Robert Altemeyer at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He notes that a large number of studies have documented a high correlation between authoritarianism and conservatism, and they have also defined the two types of authoritarian personalities, namely ...

Robert Altemeyer, a psychology professor, outlined a series of dysfunctions linked to his extensive study of RWA, including being more punitive, more likely to make incorrect inferences, more hostile towards feminists, more fearful of a dangerous world, being hypocrites, more likely to inflame intergroup ...

Although Mitt Romney used the word "conservative" 19 times in a short speech at the February 10, 2012, Conservative Political Action Conference, the audience he used this word to appeal to was not conservative by any traditional definition. It was right wing. Despite the common American practice of ...

Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review, and a former CNN producer and correspondent.

... aggression,” defined by retired Professor of Psychology Robert Altemeyer as “a general aggressiveness directed against deviants, outgroups ...

Canadian psychologist Robert Altemeyer estimates that about a fifth of the US population consists of authoritarians. These are people who ...

In 2003 Robert Altemeyer, the father of contemporary Right-wing authoritarianism research, reported on a series of global leadership ...

Dean relied on Robert Altemeyer, a retired University of Manitoba psychology professor and noted author who spent decades studying ...

Dean especially cites the work of American Robert Altemeyer at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He notes that a large number of studies ...

Consequently, Robert Altemeyer found a correlation between Social dominance orientation and Machiavellianism. I hate to admit this, however, I cannot continue to hush up the admiration I used to have for J.J Rawlings during my secondary school days in ...

... potentially heading down a dark road characterized by political violence and what social scientists call "authoritarian aggression,"definedby retired Professor of Psychology Robert Altemeyer as"a general aggressiveness directed against deviants ...

... scientists call "authoritarian aggression," defined by retired Professor of Psychology Robert Altemeyer as "a general aggressiveness directed against deviants, outgroups, and other people that are perceived to be targets according to established ...

Canadian psychologist Robert Altemeyer estimates that about a fifth of the US population consists of authoritarians. These are people who practice the creed of kiss up, kick down, by which they vent their spite on those they fancy below them while ...