Social influence- Authoritive personality Flashcards
Who proposed that people with authoritative personalities are more likely to obey?
-Adorno (1950)
What are some traits of authoritative personalities?
-Preoccupied with power
-Submissive of authoritative figures
-Hostile toward people of lower status
-Inflexible in their beliefs and values
-Rule following
-Categories people with ‘Us’ them”
-Intolerant of ambiguity
-Associated with right-wing ideas/conservatives
Why did Adorno believe people developed these personalities?
-Due to receiving harsh punishments/discipline as a child from their parents
What did this treatment as a child create? Why?
-Unconscious feelings of hostility which are displaced onto others who are weaker and cannot fight back
-As they cannot take their anger out on their parents
How do they act consciously?
-Often idealise with their parents and act in a submissive way as they are authority figures
-Therefore they take their anger and anxiety out on those below us
