Dispositional Factors Flashcards
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Authoritarian personality
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- early childhood as result of strict parenting
- makes child feel love is conditional
- creates resentment- child displaces feelings onto others seen as weak
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Adornos study - who took part
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2,000 middle- class Caucasian Americans
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Method adornos study
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- used for-scale. To measure fanciest tendencies
- facism - right wing
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findings adornos experiment
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Individuals who scored high on f-scale- identify with ‘strong people’ - show disrespect to weak
- show excessive respect to those in high power
- cognitive style
- strong positive correlation - authoritarianism and prejudice
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conclusion Adornos study
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- individuals showed extreme submissiveness and respect to authoritative figures
- uncomfortable with uncertainty - either right or wrong- ‘no grey areas’
- strong leaders- enforce traditional values
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Positive authoritarian personality
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- Elm’s and Milgram found those who went to 450V - scored higher on authoritarianism tests
- obedient and authoritative figures share same characteristics
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Negative authoritative personality
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- less educated people - high to obey than well educated to display authoritarian personality
- not authoritarian personality characteristics alone -lead to obedience but higher levels of education
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Negative authoritarian personality
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- lacks external validity
- unlikely for whole of Germany to have authoritarian personality
- better- social identity - most Germany identify anti-Semitic messages
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Negative authoritarian personality
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- political bias
- f-scale measured extreme right wing - ignores authoritarianism- left wing
- bias- core of authoritarian personality
10
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Negative authoritarian personality
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Greenstein- f-scale - comedy of methodological errors
- all questions in same direction
-in interviews- researchers knew ppts score of f-scale - questions validity
