authoritarian personality
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- Created on: 07-04-22 14:39
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- The authoritarian personality
- Adorno et al (1950)
- Procedure: developed a questionnairewhich tested the unconscious attitudes of 2000 white, middle-class Americans and determined the authoritarian personality
- Items in the questionnaire had traditional views of religion, sexuality, family and gender roles. It also outlined that authoritarians had high respect and nationalism
- Findings : those who scored highly on Adorno’s F-Sale identified more with ‘strong’ individuals and were contemptuous of the ‘ weak’. They also held stereotypes of individuals.
- There was a strong positive correlation between prejudice and authoritarianism
- Evaluations of the authoritarian personality
- Strengths
- Supported by Milgram and Elms 1966
- Weaknesses
- Correlation between variables does not imply a causation
- Political bias to the extreme left and right, ignores centrists
- Limited explanation as it does not explain an individual differences
- F-scale may have been subject to acquiescencebias
- Strengths
- Characteristics of the authoritarian personality
- Conventional attitudes towards:
- Race
- Gender
- Sex
- Religion
- Belief that society is going ‘to the dogs’ and that powerful leaders are needed to reinforce traditional values.
- Extreme respect for authority and submissive to those who were seen as superior
- Inflexibility in their outlook of society
- Stereotypes held about other groups
- Black and white thinking
- Conventional attitudes towards:
- The origin of the authoritarian personality is thought to be from harsh parenting - displacing one’s fear of their parents and discipline onto those who are seen as weaker creates an authoritarian personality in an individual and makes them obedient to authority
- A psychodynamic explanation
- Adorno et al (1950)
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