Post #3481160
2026-06-29 22:35 UTC
While much criticism has occurred of the thesis in recent years, Dr. Bob Altmeyer attempted to refine it into something subtler and add statistical reliability (though validity seems weaker to me)
He even wrote a lay book that was a huge hit in 2010s online lefty spaces:
https://theauthoritarians.org/
But rather than go over that in detail, I want to cherry-pick one aspect I very much see in real life, in media, and in many places everywhere just below the surface
The effect of visibility on them
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@jhwgh1968@chaos.social 2026-06-29 22:37
People talk a lot about "changing others' minds" and others criticize that minds cannot be changed by argument But what if there was a 3rd option? Dr. Bob's long-term surveys point to one: changing their mind through normalization Doing a longitudinal study of 2,000 college students and their parents over 30 years, he found an interesting trend in the cross tabs: The most conservative actually changed their minds on sex before marriage... but not because they had a change of heart