The Authoritarian personality

Question 1

Researcher?

Answer 1

Adorno

Question 2

Authoritarian personality

Answer 2

A personality which is especially susceptible to obeying people in authority, submissive to people with a higher status and dismissive to those with people who are a lower status.

Question 3

Procedure

Answer 3

• 2000 middle class white Americans all took part in the F-scale to measure their authoritarian personality

Question 4

Findings

Answer 4

• People who scored high on the F scale had a higher level of authoritarian personality; Adorno also found that there was a strong relationship between authoritarian personality and prejudice.

Question 5

Evaluation

Answer 5

Methodological problems- the f scale is seen to be criticized because all the questions are worded in the same direction, which means its possible to gain a high score by ticking all the same boxes, which may lead to a decrease in internal validity.