A01

• authoritarian personality

  • typically more likely to obey due to absolute respect for authority
• fromm:

  • contempt for those of lower social status
  • extreme respect for authority
  • see society as weaker now- believe more traditional values needed
  • inflexible outlook- believe everything right or wrong
• origins of AP


  harsh parenting:

  • high standards
  • conditional love
  • critical
  • expectations of absolute loyalty
• how harsh parenting leads to AP

  • leads to resentment in a child which cannot be expressed to parents due to fear of punishment and is therefore reflected onto those they percieve as weaker= skape goating
• adorno et al


  wanted to understand anti-Semitism in the holocaust and conducted research which developed the F-scale. 

  • He studied over 2000 white, American, middle-class, and their unconscious attitudes to other ethnic groups.
  • People with an AP scored high on the F scale, they identified w the strong and show contempt for the weak + showed respect for those of a higher status along w very black and white thinking (fixed stereotypes).