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- Created on: 20-11-19 11:59
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- Adorno's Authoritarian Personality
- Procedure
- 2000 white Americans and their unconscious attitudes
- Fascism scale
- Findings
- people with authoritarian scored high
- had fixed cognitive style with distinct stereotypes
- Authoritarian Characteristic
- especially obedient to authority
- contempt for people w lower social status
- inflexible in their outlook
- highly conventional attitudes towards sex,race and gender
- Origin of personality
- forms in childhood as a result of harsh parenting
- create resentment and hostility in the child - cannot express fear - fear displaced onto weaker people
- Evaluation
- Research Support
- Elms 1966 replicated and found link between obedience and authoritarian personality
- Limited explanation
- explanation of obedience in terms of individual personality is hard to explain country population behaviour
- Political Bias
- F-scale measures extreme form of right-wing ideology.
- cannot account for obedience across whole political spectrum
- Method Issues
- criticism of the F-scale
- Correlation
- not matter how strong the correlation between authoritarianism and harsh parenting, cause cannot be drawn
- Research Support
- Procedure
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