Obedience- Ardornos theory

• What is adornos theory of obedience?

  Explaining obedience in peoples personality
• What is an authoritarian personality?


  Some people have an exaggerated respect for authority

  They are more likely to only orders and look down on people of an inferior status
• What is an authoritarian personalities cognitive style?

  Black and white- rigid style of thinking - they believe in stereotypes and don't like change
• Where does the authoritarian personality originate?

  Overly strict parents and receiving only conditional lobe from parents

  The child identifies with parents moral values

  Also feel hostility towards parents which cannot be expressed for fear of reprisals
• What is scapegoating?

  Freud suggested that people who have hostility displace this onto others who are socially inferior

  You offload anger onto something else, relieving anxiety and hostility