ABSTRACT: > It is well established that mainstream personality traits are associated with moderate, traditional political attitudes. However, very little is kn

ABSTRACT: > It is well established that mainstream personality traits are associated with moderate, traditional political attitudes. However, very little is known regarding trait predictors of extreme political attitudes. In the current study(N=511 U.S. residents), we examined the relationships between the Dark Triad traits, Entitlement and three extreme political attitudes that are highly covered in mainstream media: White Identitarianism (‘Alt-Right’),Political Correctness-Authoritarianism, and Political Correctness-Liberalism. We found that Dark Triad traits and Entitlement had incremental validity in the prediction of these 3 attitudes over demographic factors. The Dark Triad traits and Entitlement explained a substantial portion of variance in White Identitarianism and Political Correctness-Authoritarianism, and only a small portion of variance in Political Correctness-Liberalism. Across all attitudes, Psychopathy and Entitlement were the most consistent, strongest predictors. Results indicate that, from a Dark Triad perspective, Authoritarian PC advocates have more in common with extreme right advocates than those holding PC views related to compassion. Disclaimer: I haven't read the whole research. It feels like there's a larger underlying pattern here. I don't know if I can synthesize a good summary of it. Seems like it might be at the intersection of belonging/tribalism, identity, and needing to be "right" and imposing that on others (probably where the authoritarianism comes from).