auhtoritraian personality

• authoritarian personality can explain obediance
• authoritarian personality was created by adorno
• over strict parenting led to a child being socialised to obey authority unquestiongly
• child displaces their agression and anger onto someone that they see as weak or inferior
• f scale - facism scale
• f scale was created by adorno
• f scale measures how strongly people express authoritarian personality traits
• why did adorno create the fscale to measure if there are certain characterisics that eld to nazis following orders
• elms and milgram - participants who scored higher on the f-scale also gave bigger shocks in milgrams shock experiment
• con - different factors could lead to authoritarian personality for example education
• con - doesn't explain how whole socieities become obediant