Authoritarian Personality

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How many middle-class, white Americans did Adorno use?
2000
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What did Adorno use to measure with during his investigation?
The F-Scale
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What does the F-Scale measure?
Fascism (authoritarian personality)
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Where did an authoritarian personality come from?
Displaced anger from childhood
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Who supported Adorno with a sample of obedient participants?
Milgram & Elms
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What did Milgram and Elms discover?
Positive correlation between obedience (acceptance and respect of authority) and authoritarianism
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Who suggested that a '3rd factor' may be to blame for this correlation?
Hyman & Sheatsley
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What is a better explanation for this type of behaviour amongst societies?
Social Identity
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Who said that the F-scale is politically biased?
Christie and Jahoda
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Who said that aquiescence bias was what was being measured?
Greenstein (all worded in the same direction)
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Where did an authoritarian personality come from?

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