dispositionak explanation of obedience

Authoritarian personality

Dispositions, explanation of obedience which focuses on importance on individuals personality in explaining their behaviour

Collection of traits that develop from strict parenting

F scale

Looks at potential for fascism

Measure different components that made up authoritarian personality

Adorno et al

Examen unconscious views of Caucasian Americans towards other racial groups

Adorno procedure

2000 middle class Caucasian Americans

Several scales were developed including f scale

Adorno findings

Authoritarians identified with strong people and were intolerant of the weak- showed excessive respect to those of higher status

Had fixed stereotypes

Raised by parents with authoritarian parenting style

Right wing authoritarian

Altemeyer

Conventionalism- adherence to conventional norms

Authoritarian aggression- aggression towards people that violate norms

Authoritarian submission- uncritical submission to legitimate authorities

Altmeyer study

Tested relationship between RWA and obedience using electrical shocks

Significant correlation between RWA scores and level of shocks that Pps were willing to give themselves

Elms and milgram aim

To test if pps behaviour emerged only under specific situational conditions or was it dispositional

Elms and milgram procedure

Took past pp who did milgrams study

20 obedient and 20 disobedient

Each completed MMPI scale and F scale

Asked a series of open ended questions

Elms and milgram findings

Little difference between obedient and disobedient pps

Higher level of authoritarian on those who classified obedient