F-Scale and Authoritarian Personality
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- F-Scale and Authoritarian Personality
- F-scale
- Measures the authoritarian personality
- Questionnaire by Adorno (1950)
- Made up of statements
- Ppts marked strongly agree - strongly disagree
- The higher the score, the more authoritarian the participant is
- Authoritarian Personality
- More likely to obey authority
- Less flexible in opinions
- Contempt for those they view as inferior
- Generally submissive to authority
- People with AP were more likely to deliver hig shocks in Milgrams study
- Evaluation: Supports Milgram (1963)
- Elms and Milgram interviewed ppts of Milgram's original study
- More obedient ppts scored higher on the F-scale
- Shows a link between obedience and AP
- Evaluation: Correlation and causation
- Link between AP and obedience is a correlation
- Correlation of the 2 variables doesn't imply causation
- A third factor could be involved
- Hyman and Sheatsley (1954)
- Obedience and authoritarian personality are associated with lower levels of education
- AP and obedience are not directly linked with each other at all
- The correlation could be misinterpreted
- Evaluation: Methodology
- Based on a flawed methodology
- Greenstein (1969): "A comedy of methodological errors
- Every statement is worded in the same 'direction'
- Possible to get a high score by ticking all boxes down one side of the page
- Aquiescence bias (tendency to agree with everything)
- Ppts may have unintentionally responded untruthfully
- Response bias means findings are meaningless
- F-scale
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