2. Authoritarian Personality Flashcards
What’s fascism?
extreme right-wing
What’s an ideology?
(eg cultural)
a system of ideas
What does ideological attractiveness mean?
building ideas of the world from things that attract us/based on our needs - these can be satisfied or frustrated
5 reasons for personality:
experiences
society - religion/expectations etc
childhood
parents
social environments
What does it mean that personality is latent?
within us - can’t be seen until acted upon
When is authoritarian ideology appealing? (needs)
when psychological needs are met when eg obeying a father figure (bowing up while kicking down)
What kind of people were used for the TAP sample?
2000 white American men, non-fascist, middle-class
(not minority groups)
What does anti-semitism mean?
hostility towards Jews
(semitism = being jewish)
Some characteristics of anti-semitic people:
hostile to jews
negative opinions to jews
How were ethnocentric people towards minority groups?
anti-minorities and black
patriotic
What did people have an attachment to and what were they resistant to?
things as they are
resistant to social change
Who’s the psychologist for a personality?
Adorno et al
What’s an issue with the F scale?
Questions are set out a certain way so that if people answer all on one side, you’d score highly - all ‘pro-trait’
What are 3 F scale clusters? (c ,as, ag)
conventionalism
authoritarian submission
authoritarian aggression
Who’s another psychologist that did right-wing work?
Altemeyer et al
