Abstract
Research was initiated to determine whether authoritarianism was related to preferences for political party and leader in the 1984 Canadian federal election, whether more authoritarian Canadians would show a preference for Reagan over Mondale, and whether dogmatism would also discriminate between conservative and liberal selections. A questionnaire was completed by 106 introductory psychology students which contained an F scale, a dogmatism scale, and items to indicate preferences for political party, leader, and Reagan or Mondale. Neither authoritarianism nor dogmatism was related to preference for Canadian political party or leader. However, supporting Rokeach's (1960) contentions, Reagan supporters were significantly higher than Mondale supporters on the authoritarianism dimension but supporters of the two candidates were not significantly different on the dogmatism measure.
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