Believe in AuthoritarianAggression (e.g. sex crimes deserve more than imprisonment; public whipped or worse) and SDO, SocialDominanceOrientation (people can be divided into two distinct classes: strong and weak)
Conventionalism/Conservativism: Obedience is emphasised in childhood, adulthood settle down and overcome rebelliousness; rules are to follow, not change; values are practical, manufacturer over intellectual, artist, theorist
Milgram: Participants who used higher shocks blamed learner for their pain, key for authoritarian character, but self-selectedvolunteers are less authoritarian; he acknowledged dispositional bias towards obedience but emphasised importance of socialcontext and argues authoritarianism lacks flexibility for situational variables
Altemeyer (1981): Refined concept to refer to right-wing authoritarianism (RWA); high RWA scores show 3 personality traits: conventionalism, authoritarian aggression, and authoritarian submission; Participants instructed to increase electric shock they gave themself after making a mistake, positive correlation between RWA scores and shocks, people politically right-wing are more likely to obey, and those politically left-wing are less likely
