‘I know what is best for you better than you do’: cross-cultural evidence of the association between Monopoly on Truth and extremism (‘Yo sé mejor que tú lo que es mejor para ti’: evidencia transcultural de la asociación entre el monopolio de la verdad y el extremismo)

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