Characterised as having extreme respect for authority and being obedient to those who are superior, aswell as being hostile to those they see as inferior.
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What did Adorno do?
He developed a psychodynamic theory as to why people develop an authoritarian personality.
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How did Adorno create his theory?
He used projective tests to access participants subconcious thoughts about racial prejudice, aswell as interviewing them about their political views and childhood.
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What did he find?
1) The authoritarian personality is the result of strict, harsh, physical punishment. 2) children quickly learn to obey and develop a strong respect for authority.
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How does Adorno's theory draw on Freud's ideas?
He used the theory of displacement - the anger at the father is displaced onto another racial group.
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What did Adorno develop from this theory?
He created the F-scale, which is a questionnaire to measure the authoritarian personality.
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How does the F-scale support Milgram's study?
Milgram re-interviewed 20 random obedient and 20 random non-obedient participants and found the obedient participants scored higher on the F-scale (and vice versa).
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What are some criticisms of the F-scale?
1) it is reductionist. 2) it relies on introspective data like memories. 3) there are lots of demand characteristics. 4) the use of a questionnaire reduces accuracy because people may misundertand questions or lie.
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What did Adorno do?
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He developed a psychodynamic theory as to why people develop an authoritarian personality.
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