Social Influence - Adorno (1950)

Question 1

Who created the authoritarian personality?

Answer 1

Adorno

Question 2

When did Adorno believe that the AP was created?

Answer 2

early childhood due to strict authoritative parenting

Question 3

how is AP measured?

Answer 3

F (facism)-scale

Question 4

how did Adorno research this?

Answer 4

2000 middle class, white americans (WEIRD) and thier unconscious attitudes to racial groups

Question 5

findings

Answer 5

strong correlation between prejudice and authoriatarianism
high f-scale scorers admired strong leaders
displayed fixed stereotypes on groups

Question 6

Elm and Milgram (1998)

Answer 6

obedient participants in milgram’s OG study scored high on f-scale
-supports dispositional explanation of obedience
HOWEVER: this is correlation not causation

Question 7

Altmeyer (1998)

Answer 7

made participants give themselves electric shocks. found AP’s obeyed authority figures even if it involved self-harm
HOWEVER: it was a lab setting so lacks ecological validity

Question 8

Christie and Jahoda (1954)

Answer 8

f-scale ignores left-wing authoritarianism

Question 9

Greenstein (1969)

Answer 9

f-scale is methodlogically flawed making results unreliable

Question 10

Middenthorp and Meleon (1990)

Answer 10

correlation between lower levels of eductaion and AP - obedience is influenced by more than just personality