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Article: Attribution of right-wing authoritarianism as a function of self-perceived political opinion.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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VOTERS' BELIEFS ABOUT what politicians actually believe may play a key role in determining how politicians' messages are interpreted. In addition, the attribution of beliefs may differ according to what those making the attributions believe. A set of beliefs studied for many years is right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), which may be a factor that accounts partly for the behavior of politicians. Altemeyer (1988), for example, showed that members of different political parties in Canada show significant differences in average levels of RWA. We investigated the influence of the self-perceived political opinions of the perceivers on their perceptions of the levels of RWA in the ...