HSRP-547

High scorers agreed more often than others to help persecute a group the government had outlawed, whatever the target: left or right, religious or secular, their own kind included.

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1. Header

Number: HSRP-547
Category: Natural Law
Grade: PROBABLE
Status: ACTIVE
Entry form: Full
First entered: Not recorded — added to the register in supplement 027
Last revised: 2026-10-13
Register entry: https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-547

2. The claim, in full

High scorers agreed more often than others to help persecute a group the government had outlawed, whatever the target: left or right, religious or secular, their own kind included.

Cited on: /the-hive-mind, THE AUTHORITARIAN HIVE MIND › The disposition, measured. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W3b-8.

3. What it rests on

The punishment follows whom the authority names. Asked whether they would help persecute a group the government had outlawed, high scorers agreed more often than others whatever the target, left and right, religious and secular, their own kind included. In Altemeyer's words, "When the authorities say, 'Go get 'em,' the high RWAs saddle up" [SRC-1013].

Source: none linked in the register

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

No source is linked to this observation in the register.

5. Counter-evidence

No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.

6. Why this grade

The argument for this grade has not yet been recorded for this observation.

The register defines PROBABLE as: Well supported, but an interpretation or connection across sources rather than something a source states directly.

7. Correction history

2026-10-13: BATCH 4 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from THE AUTHORITARIAN HIVE MIND — wording unchanged. The page's reference numbers were converted to SRC numbers at extraction.

8. Related observations

HSRP-163 · ESTABLISHED · The Authoritarian Blueprint: institutional information-dominance strategy
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-174 · ESTABLISHED · Authoritarian Blueprint formally designated a top-level HSRP framework
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-414 · PROBABLE · THE TWO HIVE MINDS: party loyalty in the United States works as a social identity, and voters largely follow it. Rests on: the publisher's description of Achen and Bartels, Democracy for Realists (2016) (voters choose "on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues"; the book itself not opened); Finkel and fourteen co-authors, Science 370 (2020) (political sectarianism defined at p. 533; "cold feelings toward the out-party now exceed warm feelings toward the in-party", p. 533; a majority-party candidate "could get elected despite openly violating democratic principles", p. 535, reporting Graham and Svolik 2020, not opened); Rathje, Van Bavel and van der Linden, PNAS 2021 (each out-group term raised the odds of a post being shared by 67%, from the abstract, which gives n = 2,730,215; observational; sharing, not votes). Washington's Farewell Address (1796) is quoted as a text, the two fragments being the opening and closing words of one sentence. Against, carried on the page: Druckman, Green and Iyengar (2023) found "scant evidence of a direct link between affective polarization and democratic backsliding in the U.S." That the two party hive minds are steered by design is not yet found, and it is not yet known whether it will be found; what is found is an incentive that rewards hostility. The model of the hive mind is this site's own, set out on /the-hive-mind, whose section 9 is "THE TWO-PARTY ARCHITECTURE", and on /psycho-vulgarism.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-544 · ESTABLISHED · Altemeyer's right-wing authoritarianism scale measures three attitudes that cluster: submission to established authority, aggression it approves, and conventionalism; "right-wing" means submission to whatever authority is established.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-545 · CONTESTED · The disposition values conformity above autonomy and is often measured by what a child should learn, which records an adult's values, not a rearing, and reads differently across US racial groups.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-546 · PROBABLE · Deference and readiness to punish go together, but modestly, and aggression does most of the work in predicting intolerance.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-548 · CONTESTED · A left-wing authoritarianism scale shares a core with the right-wing measures, though how common the left-wing form is remains disputed.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-549 · ESTABLISHED · Ordinary people obey: in Milgram's first study, 26 of 40 men went to the top of the shock board when pressed.
Relation: not recorded

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

The Programmable Hive Mind
“High scorers agreed more often than others to help persecute a group the government had outlawed, whatever the target: left or right, religious or secular, their own kind included — PROBABLE”

10. Open questions

Not yet recorded for this observation.

11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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