AO3 Authoritarian Personality

• P - Evidence for the authoritarian personality

  E - Elms + Milgram - interviews. subsample of those in Milgrams first 4 experiments - those fully obedient scored higher on test of authoritarianism

  • case studies on Nazis showed signs
  • clinical interviews participants higher on fascism scale brought up by strict guardians - not found in lower scorers

  C - reliable results However, self reports = lying, done retrospectively = bias selection, subjective
• P - X harsh parenting does not always = prejudice children/individuals

  E - Some prejudices don't conform to authoritarian personalities

  C - Doesnt explain why people are prejudice against certain groups -> also men all Nazis would've had to have had authoritarian personalities which is unlikely