Alfie Kohn on Nostr: Want to predict whether someone has authoritarian or racist tendencies? Research ...

Want to predict whether someone has authoritarian or racist tendencies? Research suggests you need only ask what that person values most in children: obedience, respect for elders, and good manners? Or curiosity, independence, and considerateness?

It's tempting to say such characteristics aren't mutually exclusive, but in fact, these two distinct sets of values cluster separately, are negatively correlated, and tend to predict opposed worldviews: https://www.karenstenner.com