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Bob Altemeyer
Canadian academic (1940–2024)
For Altemeyer's son, the politician, see Rob Altemeyer.
Robert Anthony Altemeyer (6 June 1940 – 7 February 2024) was a Canadian psychologist who was Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba.[1][2] Altemeyer also produced the right-wing authoritarianism scale, or RWA Scale,[3] as well as the related left-wing authoritarianism scale, or LWA Scale.[4]
Altemeyer first defined the right-wing authoritarian personality in 1981,[5] as a refinement of the authoritarian personality theory originally pioneered by University of California, Berkeley researchers Theodor W.
Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford.[6] Altemeyer defined the right-wing authoritarian personality as someone who:
- is naturally submissive to authority figures that they consider to be legitimate,
- acts aggressively in the name of said authority figures, and/or
- is very c