Adorno - authoritarian personality

• Authoritarian personality


  Having extreme respect for authority and likley to look down on people of lower social status
• Where does Adorno believe the authoritarian personality comes from?

  Overly strict parenting, conditional love, very harsh punishments if you don't live up to their standards
• F-scale questionnaire


  Proposed by Adorno to measure an individuals degree of authoritarian personality
• Is Adorno's theory a dispositional or situational explanation for obedience?


  Dispositional
• Why are people with an authoritarian personality hostile towards other ethnic groups?

  Their hostility towards their parents is displaced onto minority groups