Altemeyer has now written a book himself which summarizes his 30+ years of work and posted it online for free.
You can read it here: The chapters that may be for most interest to those who visit this site have to do with the correlation between RWA personalities and Evangelical (or Fundamentalist) Christians. I think it is important for anyone who tries to debate "conservatives" to understand their world view and this book will help in that effort. A perfect example of how futile such debates can be is the current online one between Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan which you get find via Sam's web site at samharris.org They consistently talk past each other. In any case I can't stress strongly enough the value in reading Altemeyer's book...
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