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Full article if you're willing to hurt yourself from it's liberalism

I just read the entire psych article and they base their entire thesis off of online polling from websites like yourmorals.org and political compass websites and some shitty wonk site called "Prolific, an online participant recruitment service" that only shitlib political junkies would know about.

Of the 836 people chosen to participate, 49.0% of participants identified with the Democratic party, 24.0% identified with Republicans, 13.6% did not identify with a political party, 5.5% identified with a party not listed in the survey, 3.4% identified with the Socialist party, 2.6% identified with the Libertarian party, and 1.6% identified with the Green party.

Thats right motherfuckers, they're basic their entire fucking thesis off of the opinion of 28 FUCKING PEOPLE

"Left-wing authoritarianism exists, is a strong predictor for participation in political violence, and shares personality traits, cognitive features, beliefs, and motivational values with right-wing authoritarianism. Differences between LW and RW authoritarians observed in dogmatism and emotionality."

From the article opening paragraph

Authoritarianism has been the subject of scientific inquiry for nearly a century, yet the vast majority of authoritarianism research has focused on right-wing authoritarianism. In the present studies, we inves-tigate the nature, structure, and nomological network of left-wing authoritarianism (LWA), a construct famously known as “the Loch Ness Monster” of political psychology. We iteratively construct a meas-ure and data-driven conceptualization of LWA across six samples (N = 7,258) and conduct quantitative tests of LWA’s relations with over 60 authoritarianism-related variables. We find that LWA, right-wing authoritarianism, and social dominance orientationreflect a shared constellation of personality traits, cognitive features, beliefs, and motivational values that might be considered the “heart” of au-thoritarianism. Still, relative to right-wing authoritarians, left-wing authoritarians were lower in dog-matism and cognitive rigidity, higher in negative emotionality, and expressed stronger support for apolitical system with substantial centralized state control. Our results also indicate that LWA power-fully predicts behavioral aggression and is strongly correlated with participation inpolitical violence.We conclude that a movement away from exclusively right-wing conceptualizations of authoritarian-ism may be required to illuminate authoritarianism’s central features, conceptual breadth, and psycho-logical appeal.