Obedience: dispositional explanations
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- Created on: 28-11-18 09:52
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- Obedience: dispositional explanations
- Explanation - Authoritarian Personality
- Hostility towards/ fear of parents is displaced onto those who are socially inferior
- Authoritarian personality includes extreme respect for authority and contempt for 'inferiors'
- Authoritarian personality originates from childhood
- A high level of obedience is pathological
- Theodore Adorno et al. (1955) - Authoritarian Personality
- Findings and conclusions
- Authoritarians identified with 'strong' people and were contemptuous of the 'weak'
- conscious of their own and others' status, showing excessive respect and deference to those of higher status
- Authoritarian people had a cognitive style where there was no 'fuzziness' between categories of people, with fixed and distinctive stereotypes about other groups
- Authoritarians identified with 'strong' people and were contemptuous of the 'weak'
- Procedure
- several scales were developed, including the potential for fascism scale
- investigated unconscious attitudes towards other racial groups of more than 200 middle-class white Americans
- Findings and conclusions
- Strength
- Support for the link between authoritarian personality and obedience
- Weaknesses
- Much of the research uses correlations
- Explanation is based on a flawed methodology
- F-scale = potentially biased
- The authoritarian personality explanation is limited
- Explanation - Authoritarian Personality
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