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Authoritarian
Personality
Evaluation
- Research
- Milgram&Elms (1966) - interviewed small
sample of fully obedient pps, who also
scored highly on F scale, see if there's a
link between obedience & auth pers
- Concluded: only a correlation not
cause and effect relationship
- Concluded: only a correlation not
cause and effect relationship
- Zilmer et al (1995) - 16 Nazi war
criminals scored highly on 3 F scale
dimensions but not all 9 -> only limited
support
- Milgram&Elms (1966) - interviewed small
sample of fully obedient pps, who also
scored highly on F scale, see if there's a
link between obedience & auth pers
- Reductionist - only focuses on
personality doesn't take into
consideration social, env + cog
factors
- Methodological
- Greenstein (1969) - Response bias - F-scale
all worded in one direction, if you agree
w/ everything you come out as v
authoritarian = low internal validity - is it
really testing what it's meant to be?
- Adorno et al interviewed
pps afterwards about
childhood exps however
knew their test score -
research bias
- Could've done two blind test
- Could've done two blind test
- Greenstein (1969) - Response bias - F-scale
all worded in one direction, if you agree
w/ everything you come out as v
authoritarian = low internal validity - is it
really testing what it's meant to be?
- Politically biased - measures tendency
towards right wing ideology
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