OBEDIENCE:DISPOSITIONAL EXPLANATIONS
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- OBEDIENCE: DISPOSITIONAL EXPLANATIONS
- THE SPEC. SAYS...
- Dispositional explanation for obedience: the authoritarian personality
- Authoritarian Personality
- like Milgram, Theodor Adorno and his colleagues wanted to understand the ANTI-SEMITISM of the holocaust
- So they did a study on obedience in relation to a someone's personality
- PROCEDUREinvestigated the of the obedient personality
- 2000, middle-class ,white Americans
- The UNCONSCIOUS attitudes towards other racial groups of the sample
- They developed several scales to investigate this
- including the potential for fascism scale(F-scale) which is still used to measure AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY
- FINDINGS
- people with authoritarian leanings (score high on F-scale) identified with 'strong' people and were generally contemptuoues of the 'weak'
- very conscious of their own and others' staus
- Showing excessive respect, deference and servility toward those of higher status
- very conscious of their own and others' staus
- Also found those authoritarian people had a COGNITIVE style with no 'fuzziness' between categories of people with fixed and distinctive stereotypes
- Strong positive correlation between authoritairanism and prejudice
- people with authoritarian leanings (score high on F-scale) identified with 'strong' people and were generally contemptuoues of the 'weak'
- Authoritarian Characteristics
- obedient to authority(extreme respect and submissiveness)
- Contempt for people with inferior social status
- Highly conventional attitudes towards race, sex and gender
- Inflexible in their outlook with no 'grey areas'
- Believe we need a strong and powerful leader to enforce traditional values
- Origin of the Authoritarian Personality
- Harsh parenting creates hostility that cannot be expressed against parents so is displaced to others
- EVALUATION
- Research Support
- Limited Explanation
- Political Bias
- Methodological problems
- Correlation not Causation
- THE SPEC. SAYS...
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