Authoritarian Personality

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Adorno’s theory of the authoritarian personality is

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dispositional explanation for obedience

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dispositional

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personality

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Adorno et al date

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1950

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Adorno et al proposed that over-strict parenting results in a child being

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socialized to obey authority unquestioningly

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Adorno explained on this idea to argue

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that strict parenting also results in prejudice

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strict parenting means the child feels

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constrained which creates aggression

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but the child is afraid they’ll be

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disciplined if they expressed this agression towards their parents

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because the children can’t express their aggression towards their parents

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they express their anger towards people who are weaker or inferior to them

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Adorno et al defined the collection of traits that came from strict parenting as

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the authoritarian personality

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as well as aggression to people of lower status and blind obedience

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the identifying traits include being conformist and having rigid moral standards

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Adorno et al (1950) developed a

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scale to measure how strongly people express authoritarian traits

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Adorno et al: the measure used to measure authoritarian personality is called

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the F scale

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Adorno et al: what does the F stand for?

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Fascism

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Adorno et al: after the second world war, Adorno’s team was trying to find out if there are characteristics

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that could explain the Nazi’s actions

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Elms and Milgram date

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1966

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Elms and Milgram found that participants who scored higher on the F scale

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had been willing to administer bigger shocks in Milgrams experiment

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this doesn’t mean that a strict upbringing or having authoritarian traits causes

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people to be obedient

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other factors such as

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education could cause someone to become obedient

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Milgram found that situational factors like

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proximity and location had a bigger effect on obedience

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the theory doesn’t explain how whole societies became obedient

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not everybody has this personality type