In my psychology class it was taught that what we think of as fear is learned behavior. The only instincual reaction to fear, the only thing infants do when afraid, is to spread their arms and try to tightly grab on to their nearest caretaker. I can see how RWA behavior fits this pattern though, if authorities fill the role of the parent figures to which a fearful child tries to cling.
I've come to realize that my (ISFJ?) sister seems like quite the RWA follower, even more so than my INTJ dad. She does not share his strong condemnation of homosexuality, but that does not mean a lot as her views instead align with what she hear is the popular opinion today, supporting the end of DADT and providing for gay civil unions but not marriages. She is not very political, but goes with either what my dad or I say, often based on who spoke most recently. In the last debate we watched on TV it seemed that all she got out of it was that one candidate proclaimed himself an evangelical christian, and that she would vote for him if she could only remember his name.
I'm pretty sure my INFP mom is not an RWA, but is closer to one than I am. Her mother and one of her brothers though strike me as perhaps the most authoritarian people I know. Her recently deceased father was a pretty extremely evangelical (who personally won over 45,000 converts through his prison ministry), sounded rather authoritarian in stories mom told of her childhood (she is one of those who consciously chose to adopt the opposite parenting style as her parents), and most of the people I met when visiting his church seemed highly RWA, but he seems to have mellowed quite a bit in his old age.
Whem I met my first (unrequited) love (an INFJ) for lunch (just as friends) on Wednesday our conversation make it clear that she is also low on the RWA scale, but to my dismay she seemed high enough on Social Dominance to make me rather uncomfortable. That did not at all seem to be the case in our last meeting, but it came this time especially when discussions turned to a debate between my
Geo-Libertarianism and her
Anarcho-Capitalism. She claimed to oppose all force, but defined force and the right to claim and defend property in such a way that seemed to boil down to might makes right. She acknowledged that equality was good in theory but seemed to think it too unrealistic an idea to really value, seemed quite pleased at how rich her career path would likely make her after she graduates, and I got the sense that I was being judged for lack of ambition. She was also way too extroverted for me that day, although her rhetorical skills seemed too good for her to be an ENFJ with inferior Ti (I'm usually a good debater, but she clearly argued better than me that day, perhaps because she had years of practice from doing debate in high school and I rarely have had a chance to discuss such issues in person/real time). She instead seemed almost ENTJ some of the time. She did test rather borderline on both I/E and T/F, but from our phone calls seems a clear Introverted at least 2/3 of the time. When in Introvert mode she typically seems like one of the most genuine and empathetic people I've ever met and seems to be all about helping those in need, but in extrovert mode she speaks of charity just as a way to pad a resume and further career goals. I don't think I like her extrovert mode very much.
What correlations do you think exist between MBTI types and RWA or social dominant types? I would not be surprised by a strong correlation with the Judging and Extroverted preferences for both, with Sensors being the norm in RWAs and intuitives more common in Social Dominators.
