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The Authoritarian Personality - Coggle Diagram
The Authoritarian Personality
The F Scale
The businessman & the manufacturer are more important to society than the artist and the professor.
Science has its place, but there are many important things that can never be understood by the human mind.
Nobody ever learned anything really important except through suffering.
Homosexuals are hardly better than criminals and ought to be severely punished.
Adorno (1950)
looked at 2000 white, middle class Americans and their unconscious attitudes
Findings
People who scored highly tended to be contemptuous of the ‘weak’
They were very conscious of their own and other peoples’ statuses
They showed excessive respect to people of higher statuses
had a cognitive style where things were ‘black’ or ‘white'
Had fixed stereotypes
Formed in childhood as a result of strict parenting
A03
Christie & Jahoda (1954)
A politically biased interpretation - This is a limitation because it can’t account for obedience across the whole political spectrum
Zillmer (1995)
16 Nazi war criminals scored on 3 of the F scale dimensions but not on all 9 aspects
Elms & Milgram (1966)
Ppts who were highly obedient in Milgram’s research scored more highly on the F scale
Attemeyer (1988)
Ppts with authoritarian personalities gave higher shocks than those without this personality type
Hyman & Sheatsley (1954)
A lower level of education could also be a factor that is involved
Greenstein (1969)
Ppts who agree with items on the F scale just have a tendency to agree with everything - acquiescence bias