obedience; dispositional explanations
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- Obedience: Dispositional explanations
- Adorno - wanted to understand the anti-Semitism of the Holocaust
- different conclusions to Milgram
- obedience was a psychological disorder and tried to locate the causes in the personality of the individual
- different conclusions to Milgram
- Procedure
- Adorno investigated the causes of the obedient personality
- 2000 middle-class white Americans and their unconscious attitudes towards other racial groups
- Facism Scale - measures authoritarian personality
- "obedience and respect for authority are the most important virtues children should learn"
- "love, gratitude and respect for his parents is important"
- Adorno investigated the causes of the obedient personality
- Findings
- people with authoritarian learnings identified with strong people and were contemptuous of the weak
- Were conscious of their own and others' status, showing excessive respect, deference and servility to those of higher status
- authoritarian people had a cognitive style where there was no fuziness between categories of people - with fixed stereotypes about others
- positive correlation between authoritarian peersonality and prejudice
- Authoritarian characteristics
- extreme respect for authority and are submissive to it
- show contempt for people they percieve have an inferior status & have high conventional attitudes towards sex, race and gender
- believe in strong powerful leaders to enforce tradditional values & everything is either right or wrong
- Origin of the authoritarian personality
- formed in childhood; result of harsh parenting
- parenting style; extreme discipline, expectation of loyalty, high standards, criticism
- characterised by conditional love; depending on behaviour of child
- these experiences create resentment and hostlity but cannot express feelings to parents
- fears are displaced onto others who are percieved as weaker
- scapegoating
- psycho-dynamic explanation
- scapegoating
- fears are displaced onto others who are percieved as weaker
- these experiences create resentment and hostlity but cannot express feelings to parents
- Adorno - wanted to understand the anti-Semitism of the Holocaust
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