But seriously scientists please do find the fascism center of the brain so I can figure out how to apply the cure

so you admit that you tankies have lead poisoned fetal alcohols???

You gotta look at that graph from the other side of the room...

This is how a lot of statistical data. The correlation coefficient is low, but it’s still correlation (but maybe not causation)

The beauty of these studies is because the words they use mean nothing the study can mean anything. "Right wing authoritarianism" What is right wing? Biden? Trump? They both are to me. But likely the study doesnt think biden is right wing. Did they count all Israel supporters as right wing? What were the left wing authoritarian supporters? Democrats? Green party libs? Based Stalinists?

Its like saying i did a study of cool people and found they all have bigger toes than average. What makes someone cool? Who decides whats cool and isnt cool? All governments are authoritarian so was this study just on anyone that isnt a full blown anarchist? Where do they draw the line?

As the researchers defined them, right-wing authoritarians are people who ascribe to conservative ideologies and so-called "traditional values" who advocate for "punitive measures for social control," while left-wing authoritarians are interested in "violently overthrow[ing] and [penalizing] the current structures of authority and power in society."

Not that I believe the political compass is a valid representation, but whatever definition these folks are using is even weirder. Then again, they agree with Engels that revolutions are authoritarian by nature, so maybe i'm the wrong one.

{|What?} From the paper: "LWA anti-hierarchical aggression was negatively related to the insular thickness"

I find it hard to believe that leftists would be associated with less empathy--but empathy is a very flexible word in psychology.

[T]he key trait linked to LWA is anxiety, especially in relation to the AHA and AC subscales (r = 0.30 and 0.31, respectively). This relationship is not surprising, given that LWA has been associated with neuroticism and higher sensitivity toward threatening situations and grievance

Ok nevermind they understand me completely

On the other hand, and less studied, Left-Wing Authoritarianism (LWA) has gained increasing relevance within the social and behavioral sciences. Recent advances have been made in understanding authoritarian attitudes among left-leaning individuals and groups across diverse sociopolitical contexts and languages (see Conway et al., 2018; Conway & McFarland, 2019; De Regt et al., 2011; Fasce & Avenda˜no, 2023; Manson, 2020; Van Hiel et al., 2006).

In fact, Costello et al. (2022) have recently made an important contribution on the conceptual elucidation

Can anyone tell me the structural reason why scientists write their papers like this? Do journal editors not take your paper seriously if you're not writing things like "conceptual elucidation"? genuinely curious.

and psychometric measurement of LWA. According to their model, there are three dimensions of LWA: Anti-Hierarchical Aggression, which is the disposition to violently overthrow and penalize the current structures of authority and power in society; Anti-Conventionalism, characterized by a sense of moral superiority and a desire for ideological uniformity within the group; and Top-Down Censorship, the drive to use group authority to coercively and punitively control ideologies and behaviors that do not conform or are not consistent with left-wing standpoints. In the work of Costello et al. (2022), this construct displayed a nomological network reflecting cognitive rigidity, coercive group behavior, and moral absolutism. The same LWA construct has also been linked to support for authoritarian policies and rejection of fundamental civil liberties and rights (Fasce & Avenda˜no, 2022; Manson, 2020).

Left-wing authoritarianism (LWA): We used the Spanish adaptation (Avenda˜no et al., 2022) of the 39-item scale recently developed by Costello et al. (2022). The questionnaire consists of 3 subscales: Anti- hierarchical aggression (LWA AHA), Anti-conventionalism (LWA AC), and Top-down censorship (LWA TDC).

the 39-item scale can be found here: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpspp0000341

If any comrade has access through an academic institution or wants to pay $17.95 for the pdf that would be great