Authoritarian personality

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authoritarian personality

  • person who has extreme submissiveness and respect to authority.

  • very traditional.

  • dominating manner.

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Adornos research

  • P: used surveys to devolop F scale. Conducted interviews to ppt.

  • F:strong positive correlation between AP and prejudice.

  • ppl with AP often had strict parents and experienced harsh punishments.

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Strength

  • Research to support: Milgrams ppt completed f scale to measure AP. 20 obedient ppts scored high showing AP leads to submissiveness.

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Limitations

  • deterministic: only focuses on psychic determinism. Factors like proximity and other human behaviours are ignored. Overly simplistic.

  • Reliance on self report which may have reflect societal explanations. interviews by adorno lead to interviewer bias.