right-wing authoritarians are less able to process information, less able to recall information, and less able to make logical inferences from information: <https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=5811169>: Three early-state information processing tasks were used: (1) content recognition of a news article 2 minutes after exposure, (2) content recognition of a recorded debate 2 minutes after exposure, and (3) the selection of correct inferential statements about a set of brief paragraphs taken from the Watson and Glasser Critical Thinking Appraisal Test. The experimental setting utilized a computer laboratory with an interactive program that guided and monitored each subject through all phases of the study. As predicted, for both samples, the authoritarianism scores covaried significantly with total cognitive task performance so that as the authoritarianism scores increased cognitive performance decreased. When the acquisition of new material was in written format, authoritarianism interacted with reading skills to limit recognition and retention of new information. When new material was presented orally, in a manner similar to that of a radio or television news broadcast or the giving of testimony during a trial, the task of retaining that information was significantly impacted by authoritarianism (accounting for 13% of the variance in recognition performance by the student sample). Subjects in both student and juror samples who scored high in authoritarianism also made significantly more inferential errors. The data from this study strongly suggests that authoritarianism as a personality variable covaries significantly with a lessened ability of an individual to process incoming information with reasonable care and accuracy.
right-wing authoritarians (RWAs) have a harder time understanding logic: <http://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheAuthoritarians.pdf> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/418850379518705675/446817085931388938/unknown.png
