Individual differences - Prejudice

• What did Adornos authoritarian personality involve?

  > Authoritarian personality - tough, destructive, obedient to authority, harsh to subordinates

  > F-scale (facism)

  > Harsh parenting style = conditional love, high standards
• How do right-wing authoritarian act?


  > Highly submissive

  > Act aggressively

  > Conformist

  > Tend to hold prejudiced attitudes
• How do right-wing authoritarians view the world?


  > The world is threatening + dangerous

  > Preserve existing social norms

  > Hostile towards anyone different
• What evidence supports this idea?

  > Cohrs et al - shows levels of prejudice can be accurately predicted using personality types
• What is refuting evidence for this?

  > May not be consistent, culture + situation are more influential
• What is the personality test?

  > Openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism

  > Low extroversion, agreeableness, openness = prejudice

  > High conscientiousness, neuroticism = prejudice

  Supporting evidence - Altemayer 1988