Adorno argued that this type of person was susceptible to people obeying authority; submissive to higher status and dismissive to inferiors
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ardonos study
understand the anti semitism of the holocaust
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adornos study prodecure
1950 - 2000 middle class white Americans studied unconscious attitudes to racial groups. used racism scale to measure authoritarian personality
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adornos findings
people with authoritarian personalities scored high on F scale
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characteristics of authoritarian personality
obedient to authority, respect /submissive to authority, conventional attitudes to sex, race, gender, strong traditional leaders, inflexible in outlook, uncomfortable with uncertainty
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origin of authoritarian personality
harsh parenting, strict discipline, conditional love, child can't express feelings due to fear, fear is displaced onto inferior people (scapegoating)
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evaluation of dispositional explanation - research support
research support: milligram and elms 1966 repeated f scale and found obedient people scored highlighly however third factor e.g. education may be involved.
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evaluation of dispositional explanation - correlation not causation
doesn't mean that one causes another - can't blame parenting
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evaluation of dispositional explanation - methodological issues
greenstein 1969 f scale all worded in same direction - interviewer bias
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evaluation of dispositional explanation - political bias
f scale right wing ideology Jahoda (1954) can't account for whole political spectrum
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evaluation of dispositional explanation - limited explanation
can't generalise to majority as subjective
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