Authoritarian attitudes in Russia: <scp>Right?wing</scp> authoritarianism and social dominance orientation in the modern Russian context

The study of authoritarianism has a long history in the field psychology; however, much this research focuses on Western countries, especially United States. In effort to better understand cross-culturally, we explore current state an important cultural context: Russia. Thus, paper reports large-scale right-wing and social dominance orientation modern Russian context. Six studies (total N = 1,358) included personality traits, basic human values, beliefs, intergroup attitudes that allowed us comprehensively consider authoritarian results showed personological profile pattern reaction threat among authoritarians is similar authoritarians. However, economic views inherited from Soviet ideology make Russians differ their view conservatism supported by These data provide insight into psychology as well novel aspects culture.