For those of you who are interested in this sort of thing , the research of Professor Robert Altemeyer was used by John Dean (Nixon's White House counsel) when researching his book Conservatives Without Conscience.    At Dean's urging Altemeyer wrote a book for laymen on his 40 or so years of study of authoritarianism and has made it freely ( Read more... )

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