High authoritarians gave higher levels of shock than low authoritarians to a trainee confederate of the experimenter when they served as trainers in a Buss-type learning experiment. There was, however, no interaction between scores on a modified F Scale and race of target for the 71 white students. The results, along with earlier findings, provide evidence of generality for authoritarian aggression.
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