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Definition

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Relates to somebody who is highly obedient and thus more likely to follow orders to do evil acts

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characteristics

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extreme respect for authority, show contempt to those below them, conventional and traditional attitudes on sex, race, gender, religion and family. They are inflexible in their attitudes.

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Upbringing

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Experienced harsh parenting in childhood that involves strict discipline, high standards, high loyalty, severe criticism of failings and conditional love.

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Adorno et al (1950)

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gave 2000 white middle class Americans the F-scale, a questionnaire that measures authoritarian personality. Found that people with a high score were more likely to be prejudice.

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Evaluation weakness: correlational

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there many be other factors (causation)

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Evaluation weakness: oversimplifies Nazi behaviour

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Not all of them would of had an authoritarian personality

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Evaluation weakness: not generalisable

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White middle class American males do not represent the views of all the people in the world.

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Evaluation weakness: questionnaire

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The more people agree with the statements, the more authoritarian they are. Thus demand characteristics and social desirability bias.

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