Authoritarian Personality : Adorno Et Al (1950) Flashcards
What did Adorno want to find out?
He investigated the unconscious attitudes towards other racial groups
What is the procedure of Adorno ?
He created several scales to investigate
Fascism Scale
What is an example question from the F scale?
Obedience and respects for authority is the most important virtues children should learn
What were the findings of adornos study?
People who had a high F scale score had a authoritarian personality
And generally identified as strong people who respect and obey those who are above them and disregard and degrade those who are below them
What are the findings regarding correlation between authoritarian personality and prejudice?
Positive correlation between authoritarian personality and prejudice and those who have a higher F Scale score are those who are likely to prejudice people on stereotypes
What are the experiences of childhood of those with authoritarian personalities?
Harsh parenting
Strict rules and discipline
High standards and expectations
Conditional love
Children have absolute loyalty
Children have resentment inside built up
AO3 : Correlation
Authoritarian personality and obedience are only a correlation and not an exact reason so there could be more potential factors which causes people to be obedient
AO3 : Limited explanation
Doesn’t explain individual personality fitting into obedience as millions of individuals abide to being violent to Jews but not all had the same personality type and very unlikely that it was authoritarian personality type
AO3 : Political Bias
A politically biased interpretation of authoritarian personality . Only accounts for fascism and not the left side parties and ideologies.
It is not comprehensive dispositional explanation that can account for obedience to authority across the whole political spectrum
