In a seminal work, Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson and Sanford (1950) coined the term authoritarian personality and stated that it was characterized by a strong adherence to conventional norms imposed from outside , as well as submission or obedience to the authorities that promote such norms. According to Adorno and colleagues, these behaviors are attempts to address various personal insecurities. Specifically, authoritarian individuals transfer their anxieties onto weak minority groups in their culture (e.g., ethnic and/or religious minorities) or onto people who deviate from social norms (e.g., homosexuals). The shift is often accompanied by associated beliefs that are highly evaluative and rigid. Other characteristics of the authoritarian personality include a cynical view of humanity and cognitive and emotional inflexibility. A belief in the need for power and persistence, a tendency to act harshly towards nonconformists, opposition to subjective or imaginative tendencies, and an exaggerated concern with promiscuity. Adler (1965) reviewed the personality characteristics described by Adorno and colleagues and noted that the central trait of the authoritarian personality is the “will to power over others,” which results in aggressive overcompensation for feelings of inferiority and insignificance. . Contemporary research continues to rely on many of the conceptualizations and measures originated by Adorno and colleagues (Martin, 2001; Stone, Lederer, & Christie, 1993). Altemeyer (1988, 1996, 1998) replicated that of Adorno et al. (1950) study and examine whether components of authoritarianism were correlated with right-wing political views. While not all components of authoritarianism are significantly related… half of the paper… as they are generally less cognitively flexible than inconsistent individuals (Sontam & Christman, 2012). This characterization is based on several specific findings that converge on a similar idea. Like authoritarians, consistent right-handers showed fewer attitude changes in response to a persuasive message than inconsistent right-handers or left-handers (Christman, Henning, Geers, Propper, & Niebauer, 2008), and were also more rigid in their attitudes. perception of ambiguous figures (Christman, Sontam and Jasper, 2009) and poorer in counterfactual thinking (Jasper, Barry and Christman, 2008); in these three studies there were few, if any, consistent left-handers in the samples and they were excluded from the statistical analyses. Finally, coherence, regardless of left or right direction, was positively correlated with the tendency to fixate (or ruminate) on current concerns (Niebauer, 2004).