Most research on authoritarianism has focused on its political and social implications. For example, researchers have examined how authoritarianism is related to prejudice and discrimination in Western and non-Western countries. Accumulated research has shown that individuals who score high on authoritarianism are prejudiced, belligerent toward targets sanctioned by authorities, anti-introspective, and focused on conventionality and tradition, and that they feel morally superior to others. Psychologists know a lot about the ideological correlates of the variable. But research on how authoritarianism finds expression in nonpolitical domains is in its infancy.
研究が積み重ねられるにつれて、権威を重んじる個人は、偏見を持ち、権威が認めた対象には敵対的で、反省を拒み、伝統と慣例に注目し、自分たちは道徳的に他者より勝っていると感じているとわかった。
心理学者達はイデオロギー的要因による変化について多くを知っているが、権威主義がどのようにして非政治的領域に表現を見つけるかについて(の研究)は初期の段階だ。