In the forty years since Altemeyer’s 1981 RWA scale first appeared, a much more biological turn has become mainstream within political psychology. One reason may well have had something to do with Altemeyer’s having dispensed—naturally enough at the time—with the Freudian tie-downs by which the work of Adorno et al had been secured (at least in principle) to reality. But lacking a putative origin in repressive upbringings, Altemeyer’s RWAs seemed forlornly underdetermined. One authoritative recent account suggests that by the 1980s and 1990s, theorists were at a loss to account, after the widespread implementation of “affirmative action and minority empowerment”,…