highly obedient towards people of perceived higher status, rigid and harsh parenting (usually physical punishment), see world as black/white, traits include respect for authority, sticks to social rules + hierarchies, hostile towards people perceived as lower classEVALUATION:+ ELM + MILGRAM interviewed small sample people participated in original study, and were fully obedient -> completed F-scale -> found 20 obedient scored significantly higher than disobedient participants+ ADORNO ET AL, said that obedient people show characteristics similar to authoritarian personality- BUT correlation could be from cofounding variable like lower education and not causation - GREENSTEIN said F-scale flawed as every item worded in same direction -> if not paying attention may tick all agree -> Authoritarian personality