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Right-wing authoritarianism

Known as: RWA, RWA scale, Right wing authoritarian 
Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) is a personality and ideological variable studied in political, social, and personality psychology. Right-wing… 
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Highly Cited
2018
Highly Cited
2018
Investigating Right Wing Authoritarianism With a Very Short Authoritarianism Scale
Authoritarianism has been an important explanatory concept for more than 60 years and a powerful predictor of social, political… 
Highly Cited
2018
Highly Cited
2018
Finding the Loch Ness Monster: Left‐Wing Authoritarianism in the United States
Although past research suggests authoritarianism may be a uniquely right-wing phenomenon, the present two studies tested the… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Authoritarian environmentalism and China's response to climate change
Authoritarian environmentalism is a non-participatory approach to public policy-making and implementation in the face of severe… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism: Additive and Interactive Effects
The additive and interactive effects of Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) and Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) were examined… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
What matters most to prejudice: Big Five personality, Social Dominance Orientation, or Right‐Wing Authoritarianism?
Whereas previous research has studied the relation of either (i) personality with prejudice, (ii) personality with social… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Right-Wing Authoritarianism , Social Dominance Orientation , and Prejudice
Right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation have been proposed as 2 major individualdifference variables… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Anxiety and Intergroup Bias: Terror Management or Coalitional Psychology?
Contemplation of death increases support of ingroup ideologies, a result explained by proponents of terror management theory (TMT… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Forest Regeneration in Logged and Unlogged Forests of Kibale National Park, Uganda
Processes of forest regeneration in two unlogged areas and in three areas that were logged nearly 25 years ago were quantified in… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Perceived Threat and Authoritarianism
There has been a long history of work on authoritarianism that has looked at the role of societal threat. Much of the empirical… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Autism and symbolic play
Recent work suggests autistic children are impaired in their symbolic (or pretend) play. However, such studies have either used… 
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