HSRP-554
A bodily threat trait that predicts politics failed replication, and a stress shift to habit, found in rodents, is disputed in people.
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
A bodily threat trait that predicts politics failed replication, and a stress shift to habit, found in rodents, is disputed in people.
Cited on: /the-hive-mind, THE AUTHORITARIAN HIVE MIND › What keeps it active. THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "CONTESTED, in rodents PROBABLE". Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W3b-14.
3. What it rests on
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In people the measured support runs through perceived threat, not physiology [SRC-1022] [SRC-1023].
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 trait not supported, its failed replication PROBABLE; the shift in people CONTESTED, in rodents PROBABLE
The register defines CONTESTED as: Disputed in the underlying science; the dispute is stated rather than omitted.
7. Correction history
8. Related observations
- HSRP-553 · PROBABLE · Threat activates authoritarian responses, and in people the measured support runs through perceived threat, not physiology.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-555 · PROBABLE · People punish norm-breakers even when unharmed and at a cost to themselves, across societies.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-556 · SPECULATIVE · The group keeps the disposition active through a loop of punishment, hidden doubt and false enforcement, pluralistic ignorance and a rising price on deviation, threat turning every link up; that the loop creates the disposition is speculative.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-557 · WORKING · Cultures with stronger norms and less tolerance of deviance have faced more threat and keep more autocratic institutions; threat as the cause of their tightness is a working view, and tightness alone is not the authoritarian hive.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-558 · WORKING · Jeremy Locke's The End of All Evil (2005) argues that culture makes the ruled enforcers of one another; the research meets him on the mechanism and is silent on his verdict.Relation: not recorded
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- The Programmable Hive Mind“A bodily threat trait that predicts politics failed replication, and a stress shift to habit, found in rodents, is disputed in people — the trait not supported, its failed replication PROBABLE; the shift in people CONTESTED, in rodents 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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