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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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2018
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… Expand
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Review
2014
Review
2014
Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption?
Abstract Despite the well-documented implications of right-wing ideological dispositions for human intergroup relations… Expand
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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… Expand
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
A bias-corrected exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of right-wing authoritarianism: Support for a three-factor structure
The factor structure of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) remains a contentious issue. Although designed to measure three… Expand
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
We will hunt them down: How social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism fuel ethnic persecution of immigrants in fundamentally different ways
Despite the fact that SDO and RWA are correlated with one another and both predict support for ethnic persecution of immigrants… Expand
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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… Expand
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… Expand
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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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