Table 2.
Study 1: identification of left- and right-wing authoritarians in everyday life, broken down by political identification of the participant.
| Liberal Participants | Conservative Participants | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Cons. | Liberal | Cons. | |
| Mean number of authoritarians | ||||
| Family | 1.6 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 3.1 |
| Friends | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 3.2 |
| Co-Workers | 2.3 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.9 |
| News/TV/Movie/Sports | 4.0 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 4.9 |
| TOTAL (SUM) | 10.5 | 14.8 | 13.4 | 14.0 |
| TOTAL (REPORTED) | 6.6 | 9.0 | 11.3 | 8.5 |
| Most authoritarian person | ||||
| Family | 34% | 57% | 31% | 60% |
| Friends | 34% | 52% | 37% | 53% |
| Co-Workers | 23% | 57% | 34% | 41% |
| News/TV/Movie/Sports | 29% | 60% | 50% | 37% |
| TOTAL (AVERAGE) | 30% | 56% | 38% | 48% |
| TOTAL (REPORTED) | 24% | 71% | 49% | 48% |
Total N = 395. Conservative participant n = 151; liberal participant n = 244.