authoritarian personality

• adorno


  high levles of obedience are psychological disorder. Dispositional explanation
• authoritarian personality 


  prone to obeying people in authority
• adorno et al


  investigate cause of obedient personality

  2,000 middle class white americans, measured unconcious attitudes towards racial groups
• authoritarian characteristics


  obedient to authority

  extreme respect

  rigid thinkers

  dislike inferior

  conventional attitudes towards sex, race and gender
• origins of authoritarian personality

  result of harsh parenting, with impossibly high standards and treated with conditional love

  children develop fear of punishment and displace feelings on others called scapegoating