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Jackpine Radical

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6. I've been pushing Altemeyer's ideas & free online book around here for years.

Tue Feb 14, 2012, 08:30 PM

Feb 2012

His work is an outgrowth of the old Adorno et al. work on authoritarianism done after WW2 that resulted in things like the California F Scale. Where the Adorno crowd delineated the characteristics of the followers, Altemeyer focused more on the psychological characteristics of the leaders. The leaders and the followers are not the same kind of people.

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The Right-Wing Id Unzipped [View all] elleng Feb 2012 OP

Gee, that is Holy Ricky and Cheater Newty to a T southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #1

The "unzipped" part certainly fits old Newt. lob1 Feb 2012 #2

It sure does. LOL southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #5

Altemeyer's book is an excellent analysis of the pathology BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #3

You may be right; I haven't checked. elleng Feb 2012 #4

Oh, there's another book I want to read BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #8

Ditto, Blanche, elleng Feb 2012 #9

:) BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #11

I've been pushing Altemeyer's ideas & free online book around here for years. Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #6

oh interesting! BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #7

Altemeyer acknowledges his roots in the Adorno work. Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #12

Wow!! Thanks, Pine... BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #13

I should think the abridged version would do just fine. Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #14

K&R zeos3 Feb 2012 #10