Dispositional Explanations of Obedience
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- Created on: 24-03-17 13:02
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- Dispositional Explanations of Obedience
- Adorno's Study
- Studied 2000 middle-class white american and their unconscious attitudes to other racial groups
- Developed scales to investigate, F Scale, which are still used to measure authoritarian personality
- Found a strong correlation between people that scored highly on the F scale and how obedient they were to people in authority
- Also found that they were more likely to be prejudiced to other people.
- Authoritarian Personality
- Extreme obedience in children occurs through a strict upbringing
- Have extreme respect for authority and feels naturally hostile to lower ranks
- Majorly submissive to authoritive
- Focuses on how personality traits lead people to act in a certain way
- Evaluation
- :) Adorno's research
- :( Subject to Social Desirability Bias
- Questionnaire
- When people change the answers so they are in a good light
- Therefore results arent correct and lowers the amount of people with the authoritarian personality
- :( Correlation not causation
- F scale doesn't mean that it causes an authoritarian personality
- Adorno's Study
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