Authoritarian personality
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- Created on: 25-04-18 16:22
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- Authoritarian personality
- The F scale
- Measures the different components that made up the authoritarian personality
- Rigid thinkers who obeyed authority (saw world as black and white) strict adherence to social rules and hierachies
- Score high = raised by parents who used an authoritarian parenting style (physical punishment)
- Aquire the same authoritarian attitudes through the process of learning and imitation
- Right wing authoritarianism
- High-RWA people posses three characteristics that predispose them to obedience
- Conventionalism
- Adherence to conventional norms and valuses
- Authoritarian aggression
- Aggressive towards people who violate norms
- Authoritarian submission
- Uncritical submission to legitimate authorities
- Conventionalism
- High-RWA people posses three characteristics that predispose them to obedience
- Elms and Milgram (Follow up study)
- Used PPTs that took part in previous test.
- Selected 20 obedient ppts and 20 defiant (wouldnt go further) ppts
- Each person completed the MMPI scale (measures range of personality variables) and the F scale
- F = Fould little difference between the groups with the MMPI varaiables
- F = Higher levels of authoritarianism among obedient group
- False claims
- Although there is a strong corrolation between variables there isnt evidence that it causes it
- Differences between the PPTs
- PPTs said they has a very good relationship with their farther, rather than avery strict upbringing associated with AP
- = Low validity
- PPTs said they has a very good relationship with their farther, rather than avery strict upbringing associated with AP
- Limited explanation
- Social idenity - majority of German people identified with the anti-semitic Nazi state, and scapegoated the 'outgroup' of Jews
- Social context
- Milgram - Variations in the social context of the study were the primary causes of differences in ppts levels of obedience
- Proximity to victim, location, presence of disobeying peers
- Milgram - Variations in the social context of the study were the primary causes of differences in ppts levels of obedience
- The F scale
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