Dispositional explanations of obedience Flashcards
What does the authoritarian personality explain
Those holding right-wing conservative values
What can authoritarian personality also explain
Higher levels of obedience
What do those with an authoritarian personality tend to be
Hostile to those who are inferior, rigid in opinions and conventional in beliefs
How did Adorno see those with an authoritarian personality
As hostile toward minorities and having a need for power and control
Where is authoritarian personality thought to stem
From hierarchical and strict parenting
What do children develop from this type of parenting
Anger and hostility which is then displaced onto inferior targets
What did Adorno construct
F-scale
How did a US army chairman state about Abu Ghraib
That the abuse was rogue soldiers and not systematic abuse
What was milgram and elms
Used the F-scale to sample obedient and disobedient participants from milgrams study
What did milgram and elms find
Highly obedient participants scored higher on the f-scale
Why would difference in responses be due to dispositional factors
All participants were exposed to the same situational factors and therefore differences would be due to disposition
What will explanations of obedience struggle to explain
Large-scale majority, as it is unlikely for a whole country to possess an authoritarian personality
Why is the theory politically biased
Individuals with authoritarian personality are only seen as existing on the right-wing, but some studies have found that they can also be found on the left side of the scale
What has other studies found about political similarity
That fascists and communists share qualities
