Personality Differences Flashcards
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Adorno (1950)
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Authoritarian personality type
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Authoritarian personality type
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- explanation for obedience to the nazis and the holocaust
- respect authority figures
- delight in being an authority figure
- obey superiors without question but bully and oppressive inferiors in turn
- black and white world view
- conventional beliefs about right and wrong
- aggression towards those who are different
- need for strong leadership
- project feelings of inadequacy, rage and fear onto another as a scapegoat
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F-scale
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Measure the authoritarian personality (f for fascism)
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Psychodynamic explanation of Authoritarian personality
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- strong id but weak ego (driven by powerful antisocial desires)
- strict superego that makes them feel guilty and ashamed so when auto hire gives immoral orders, they act out this wicked desires without guilt
- useprojection as a defence mechanism to project sense of shame and weakness into those with less power, hence why they give orders and bully
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Locus of control
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The importance that autonomy and
