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Advantages
- SE - Elms and Milgram 1966 - ppts in Milgrams study who were highly obedient were significantly more authoritarian on F-Scale than disobedient ppts.
- Altemeyer - reported ppts with authoritarian personality type who were ordered to give themselves shocks than those without the personality type.
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Disadvantages
- Problems with questionnaire - F Scale could've produced response bias, where ppts respond in a similar way. The F Scale is just measuring the tendency to agree with everything (acquiescene bias)
- Further problem with F-Scale - Political Bias - measures tendency towards extreme form of right wing ideology. Christine and Jahoda argued this is a politically biased interpretation of A.P. Not a comprehensive dispositional explanation that can account for obedience to authority across whole political spectrum.
- Zimler et al - reported that 16 Nazi war criminals scored highly on 3 scales of F Scale but not all 9.
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