political attitudes and irrationality

Question 1

what are the 4 aspects of political attitudes?

Answer 1

• right wing authoritarian
• conservatism
• left wing authoritarian
• social dominance

Question 2

authoritarianism

Answer 2

Theodore Adorno (1950)
- excessive conformity
-intolerance of others
- rigid and stereotyped patterns of thoughts
- (submissive behaviour towards authority)

Question 3

right wing authoritarianism

Answer 3

altemeyer (1996, 1999)
- accept abuses of power by government
- prejudiced on racial, ethical, nationalist and sexual grounds
- cause and inflame intergroup conflict
- fearful
- self- righteous
- accept insufficient evidence to support their beliefs
- conform to the opinion of others
- believe they have no personal failings
- punitive attitudes
- trust authorities too much
- dogmatic

Question 4

right wing authoritarianism

Answer 4

double standards and inconsistencies
- insistence on rights of the majority when part of the majority
- insistence on rights of the minority
- claiming censorship of own ideas but censoring ideas of others

• highlighting differences in cognitive processes in authoratarian personalities (perceiving and dealing with information
• personality big five