Authoritarian Personality Flashcards
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Adorno et al (1950)
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- Adorno et al (1950) proposed that prejudice is the results of an individuals personality type.
- They plotted and developed a questionnaire called the F scale
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Adorno et al (1950)
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- Adorno argued that personality traits predisposed some individuals to be highly sensitive to totalitarian and antidemocratic ideas and therefore prone to be highly prejudical
3
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What are some elements of authoritarian personality?
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- Blind allegiance to conventional beliefs about right and wrong
- belief in aggression towards those who do not subscribe to conventional thinking
- a negative view of people in general
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What did Adorno conclude?
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- categories us into ‘us’ and ‘them’ groups
- individuals with a very strict upbringing by critical and harsh parents were most likely to develop authoritarian personality
- Adorno belived that inividuals in the question was not able to express hostility towards their parents
- the person would then display the aggression/hostility onto safer targets, namely those who are perceived as them as weak such as ethnic minorities
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What is ethnocentrism?
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- The tendency to favour one’s own ethnic group
