Authoritarian Personality For Obedience AO3

• Dispositional explanations can't explain obediene in entire societies eg. it's unlikely the Nazis all had the same personality in cases like this
• Situational factors may be more appropriate eg. proximity, as investigated by Milgram may have a greater influence on obedience levels
• Correlational research is difficult establishing cause + effect between parenting style and obedience
• Adornos research was based on Retrospective data - it's possible that level of education may determine both authoritarianism and obedience
• The measurement tool may be flawed - Greenstein called the f-scale a 'comedy of methodological errors'
• If you answered agree to every question, you'd be classed as having an AP + people want to agree - acquiescence bias
• The measurement tool may be flawed - perhaps there are implications for validity of theory
• Elms + Milgram interviewed people from Milgram's experiment - of the 20 fully obedient participants they sampled, they all scored higher on F-scale than the 20 disobedient participants they sampled - supporting AP
• However, Milgram's participants were different to typical AP - didn't glorify fathers, or have hostile attitudes towards mothers