Any given population is approximately 30% highly authoritarian. Their behaviors can be summarized as:

1. high degree of submission to established, legitimate authorities in their society
2. high levels of aggression in the name of said authorities
3. a high level of conventionalism Often, a high authoritarian individual can be identified with the following question: To what degree should society be dictated by authority? Low and medium authoritarian people will both answer "not at all", while highly authoritarian people will say something like "an average amount". This illustrates the need to be normal in their lives. The need to see oneself as average.

So, one of the most effective ways to prevent this is for highly authoritarian people to see others acting in defiance of authority, as well as interacting with other, non-authoritarian people. Basically showing that continuous submission to authority is not the only way to live a normal life.

https://theauthoritarians.org/