authoritarian personality
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- Created on: 29-05-17 16:03
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- Dispositional Factors - obedience
- Authoritarian Personality
- Authoritarian personality is a type of personality that Adorno argued makes people extermerally likely to obey people in authority
- Adorno investigated the cause of obedient personality in a study of more than 2000 middle class american, and investigated their attitude towards racial groups
- Findings showed that people who scored high identified with strong people and disapproved of the weak, they showed excessive respect to those of higher status
- Adorno developed a scale to measure authoritarian traits known as the F Scale
- Adorno proposed that over strict parenting results in a child being socialised to obey authority without question
- Strict Parenting creates prejudice as the child creates aggression, but the child is afraid to display this towards his parents so instead they are hostile to people they see as weak or inferior
- Authoritarian Personality
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