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Authoritarian personality
The belief that people should completely obey or submit to their authority figures, and suppress their own beliefs.
F-scale
Developed in 1947 as a measure of authoriarian traits or tendencies.
Dispostional
Explanation of behaviours such as obedience emphasise them being caused by an individuals own person characteristics rather than situational influences within the enviroment.
Right-wing authoritarianism
A cluster of personality variables that are associated with the ‘right wing’ attitude to life.
Who first identified the Authoritarian personality?
Adorno et al (1950)