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• Argoskin et al., (2014) found a positive correlation between self-esteem and grey matter.
• People with low self-esteem tend to have reduced amounts of grey matter in the hippocampus (emotion and control of stress). Therefore their might be a biological element to conformity as people with low self-esteem tend to be more conforming.
• An association between damage in the prefrontal cortex and faulty moral reasoning.
• Anderson et al., (1999) found two individuals who had suffered brain damage to the prefrontal cortex as babies were unable to understand the difference between right and wrong behaviour and showed personality traits similar to psychopaths.
• Authoritarian personality


  More likely to obey those in authority and discriminate against those that they saw as inferior
• Authoritarian personality


  • See the world in black and white (if someone breaks the rules they should be punished)
  • Offer blind obedience to those they see as being of a higher authority to themselves
  • Are contemptuous and prejudice against those they see as being inferior to themselves
  • Are very confident
• Scoring high on the F-scale


  Often been subjected to strict and rigid upbringing, particularly from their fathers
• Seeing their fathers as a figure of authority


  Unable to express their negative feelings directly towards him, instead they displace them onto someone weaker
• 1. scale


  Questionnaire developed by Adorno to test for authoritarian personality
• Participants in Milgram's electric shock experiment

  Half defied the order to go up to 450 volts, half obeyed
• Participants who obeyed

  Significantly more scored highly on the F-scale compared to those who had been defiant
• Adorno (1950) wanted to explain how the Nazis were able to gain such a following in Germany during the Second World War
• Adorno suggested the authoritarian personality was the reason for the Nazis' following