HSRP-610

Self-uncertainty goes with backing autocratic leaders, and a high need for closure goes with pressure to uniformity, autocratic leadership, in-group favoritism and rejection of deviates.

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1. Header

Number
HSRP-610
Category
Psychology & Consciousness
Grade
PROBABLE
Status
ACTIVE
Entry form
Full
First entered
Not recorded — added to the register in supplement 028
Last revised
2026-10-15
Register entry
https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-610

2. The claim, in full

Self-uncertainty goes with backing autocratic leaders, and a high need for closure goes with pressure to uniformity, autocratic leadership, in-group favoritism and rejection of deviates.

Cited on: /the-hive-mind, WHERE THE AUTHORITARIAN HIVE COMES FROM › Fromm's escapes from freedom. Entered 2026-10-15 by the Fromm update, which weaves Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom (1941) into this page. THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "PROBABLE". Created 15 October 2026.

3. What it rests on

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

4. Sources

5. Counter-evidence

Rast et al. is one correlational survey; Kruglanski et al. reviews one research programme. A related claim, that threats to personal control raise belief in a controlling God, failed a registered replication (Hoogeveen, Wagenmakers, Kay & van Elk; details not yet verified at source) and is not used on the page.

6. Why this grade

PROBABLE

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

7. Correction history

2026-10-15
The Fromm update to /the-hive-mind — Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom (1941) woven into the page's account of how members stop judging. Quotations go in letter for letter; chapters are cited on the page and pages on this proof page, still to be confirmed in a printed copy.

8. Related observations

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /the-hive-mind.

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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  "grade": "PROBABLE",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "category": "PSY",
  "title": "Self-uncertainty goes with backing autocratic leaders, and a high need for closure goes with pressure to uniformity, autocratic leadership, in-group favoritism and rejection of deviates.",
  "entry_form": "full",
  "note": "Cited on: /the-hive-mind, WHERE THE AUTHORITARIAN HIVE COMES FROM › Fromm's escapes from freedom. Entered 2026-10-15 by the Fromm update, which weaves Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom (1941) into this page. THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: \"PROBABLE\". Created 15 October 2026.",
  "n": 610,
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  "cited_by": [
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    "SRC-1126"
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  "supplement": "028",
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      "statement": "Rast, Hogg & Giessner (2013; online 2012), employees, N = 215, abstract: \"less self-uncertain participants were more supportive of a non-autocratic than autocratic leader, whereas the opposite was the case for more self-uncertain participants\"; the effect was mediated by how prototypical of the group the leader was seen to be [SRC-1125]."
    },
    {
      "statement": "Kruglanski, Pierro, Mannetti & De Grada (2006), abstract: group-centrism includes \"pressures to opinion uniformity, encouragement of autocratic leadership, in-group favoritism, rejection of deviates\" [SRC-1126]."
    }
  ],
  "counter_evidence_note": "Rast et al. is one correlational survey; Kruglanski et al. reviews one research programme. A related claim, that threats to personal control raise belief in a controlling God, failed a registered replication (Hoogeveen, Wagenmakers, Kay & van Elk; details not yet verified at source) and is not used on the page.",
  "grade_rationale": "PROBABLE",
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      "event": "The Fromm update to /the-hive-mind",
      "reason": "Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom (1941) woven into the page's account of how members stop judging. Quotations go in letter for letter; chapters are cited on the page and pages on this proof page, still to be confirmed in a printed copy."
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